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Finding Your Roots

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

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The ancestral pasts of married Hollywood actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
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Dr. Gates, brings Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams their family histories.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Andy Samberg and George R. R. Martin answer family mysteries.
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Season 4 Episode 9
Southern Roots
Questlove, Dr. Phil and Charlayne Hunter-Gault join Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Relatives We Never Knew We Had
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Relatives We Never Knew We Had
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Children of the Revolution
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Children of the Revolution
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Black Like Me
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Black Like Me
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Immigrant Nation
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Immigrant Nation
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay, and Janet Mock join Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Puritans and Pioneers
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Unfamiliar Kin
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Larry David and Bernie Sanders join Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Finding Your Roots.
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Season 3 Episode 9
The Long Way Home
Discover the family traditions of Julianna Margulies, Azar Nafisi and Lidia Bastianich.
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