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Finding Your Roots
Rags to Riches
Season 12
Episode 10
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of actor Kate Burton and media mogul Barry Diller—two people who grew up in comfort, thanks to ancestors who did not. Moving from shtetls to coal mines to orphanages, Gates and his guests learn stories of extraordinary sacrifice and explore a profound question: what do we inherit from people whose lives were unimaginably more challenging than our own?
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels on a journey into their roots.
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Erin Burnett, Amy Carlson and André Leon Talley trace their ancestral roots.
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Broadway stars Leslie Odom, Jr. and Nathan Lane meet a cast of inspiring ancestors.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps John Leguizamo and Lena Waithe retrace their ancestral paths.
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Pamela Adlon and Kathryn Hahn discover the truth about their scandal-plagued ancestors.
