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The poster features a confident Black man in a dark suit with a yellow tie, exuding authority and strength. The warm, golden background suggests a sense of heritage and tradition. Bold white text reads "Finding Your Roots," emphasizing the show's focus on cultural identity and family history.

Finding Your Roots

2012 · TV Series · 60 min· Updated Apr 2026

12 Seasons • 126 Episodes

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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.

Finding Your Roots is a show that explores themes of dna, celebrity, ancestry. It also touches on genealogy.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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In 2016, Cal Thomas of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the show was "The most compelling television you will ever see." In 2015, it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding...

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The poster features a confident Black man in a dark suit with a yellow tie, exuding authority and strength. The warm, golden background suggests a sense of heritage and tradition. Bold white text reads "Finding Your Roots," emphasizing the show's focus on cultural identity and family history.

Finding Your Roots

2012•⭐ 6.2•60 min•Updated Apr 2026
🌐English

12 Seasons • 126 Episodes

You can watch Finding Your Roots (2012) for free on Hoopla.

Rated:TV-PG
⭐

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6.2/10

67

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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.

Finding Your Roots is a show that explores themes of dna, celebrity, ancestry. It also touches on genealogy.

Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

What Critics Say

In 2016, Cal Thomas of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the show was "The most compelling television you will ever see." In 2015, it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding...

Fairy TaleSerial KillerFree MoviesParodyHaunted HouseTrendingMurder MysteryRoad TripKaijuRom-ComNeo-NoirWorld War IISuperheroZombieComing SoonFairy TaleSerial KillerFree MoviesParodyHaunted HouseTrendingMurder MysteryRoad TripKaijuRom-ComNeo-NoirWorld War IISuperheroZombieComing Soon

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