Overview
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Details
Status
Returning Series
Network
PBS
Type
Documentary
Original Language
EN
Production Countries
US
Spoken Languages
English
Top Cast
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Seasons
EP 1Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.EP 2John Lewis and Cory BookerEP 3Barbara Walters and Geoffrey CanadaEP 4Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin BaconEP 5Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir QadhiEP 6Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie GyllenhaalEP 7Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth SimmonsEP 8Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay GuptaEP 9John Legend and Wanda SykesEP 10Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez