Finding Your Roots

The Pioneers: Neil Patrick Harris

Clip: Season 3 Episode 8 | 1m 18s

Neil Patrick Harris uncovers ancestors who paved the way for their descendants in Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS.

Aired: 02/23/16 | Rating: NR

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.

More Extras

• Episode Eight Preview: Pioneers

  Preview: S3 Ep8 | 25s

• The Pioneers: Gloria Steinem

  Clip: S3 Ep8 | 58s

• The Pioneers: Sandra Cisneros

  Clip: S3 Ep8 | 1m 6s

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