Finding Your Roots

Tuesdays at 8/7c

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all. (official site)

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and by The Inkwell Society and its members Candace King Weir; Lloyd Carney Foundation; Jim and Susan Swartz; Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal; Anne Wojcicki; Hayward and Kathy Draper; and Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Featured Videos

• Where Did We Come From?

  S8 Ep10 | 52m 16s | WETA Passport

• Where Did We Come From? Preview

  Preview: S8 Ep10 | 32s

• Watchmen

  S8 Ep9 | 52m 11s | WETA Passport

Episodes

• Where Did We Come From?

  S8 Ep10 | 52m 16s | WETA Passport

• Watchmen

  S8 Ep9 | 52m 11s | WETA Passport

• Songs of the Past

  S8 Ep8 | 52m 11s | WETA Passport

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Specials

• Finding Your Own Roots: 8 Tips for Creating Your Family Tree

  Special | 5m 27s

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Extras

• Season 8 Official Preview

  Preview: S8 | 3m 7s

• Season 8 Teaser

  Preview: S8 | 30s

• Season 8 Sneak Peek

  Preview: S8 | 2m

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