Season 2: Episode 9

Season 3: Episode 1

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr (2012)

Season 2: Episode 10

Decoding Our Past Through DNA

TMDb

Air Date:

2025-12-06

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

2012

End Date

2025

Episode Description

Secrets encoded in their genomes challenge these guests’ ideas about their families’ histories and their identities today. This episode features Jessica Alba, Anderson Cooper, Valerie Jarrett, Governor Deval Patrick and more.

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Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

John Lewis and Cory Booker

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

In Search of our Fathers

Our American Storytellers

Roots of Freedom

The Melting Pot

We Come From People

Our People, Our Traditions

The British Invasion

Decoding Our Past Through DNA

The Stories We Tell

The Irish Factor

In Search Of Freedom

Tragedy + Time = Comedy

Family Reunions

The Long Way Home

Grandparents and Other Strangers

Reporting on the Reporters

Dreaming of a New Land

Roots in Politics

No Laughing Matter

The Eye of the Beholder

Hollywood Royalty

This Land is My Land

Beyond the Pale

Science Pioneers

Fashion's Roots

Breaking Silences

Coming to America

To the Manor Born

No Irish Need Apply

The Shirts on Their Backs

Anchored to the Past

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