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Stranger Than Fiction

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Dreamers One And All

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Latin Roots

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Finding My Roots

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Finding Your Roots

In the Blood

Season 10 Episode 9

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Michael Douglas & writer-director Lena Dunham. Both guests are the children of famous artists—and both proudly followed in their parents’ footsteps. But their family trees contain a cast of characters whose lives were forgotten. Gates recovers them, telling fascinating stories from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the streets of colonial America.

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