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New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall

New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall

New episodes of Finding Your Roots are back Tuesday, October 13, at 8/7c! Check out the guests who will be joining Henry Louis Gates, Jr. next to uncover their family histories.
Preview Length 03:01 Premiere: 8/5/20

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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.

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Finding Your Roots

About Finding Your Roots

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.

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Hard Times

Premiered On: 02/26/2019

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family stories of filmmaker Michael Moore and actors Laura Linney and Chloe Sevigny - three people whose distant ancestors overcame great hardships in ways that resonate with their lives today.

  • Tuesday June 28, 2022 8:00 pm ET on KET
  • Tuesday June 28, 2022 7:00 pm CT on KET
  • Thursday June 30, 2022 1:00 am ET on KET
  • Thursday June 30, 2022 12:00 am CT on KET
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  • Friday July 1, 2022 7:00 pm ET on KET2
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  • Sunday July 3, 2022 12:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday July 2, 2022 11:00 pm CT on KET2

All in the Family

Premiered On: 04/09/2019

Radio host Joe Madison receives startling family news, and series host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. learns his own DNA story. Also features the "Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings" STEM Camp, with science and history inspiring the next generation.

  • Tuesday July 5, 2022 8:00 pm ET on KET
  • Tuesday July 5, 2022 7:00 pm CT on KET
  • Thursday July 7, 2022 1:00 am ET on KET
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  • Friday July 8, 2022 7:00 pm ET on KET2
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  • Sunday July 10, 2022 12:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday July 9, 2022 11:00 pm CT on KET2

Grandparents and Other Strangers

Premiered On: 01/08/2019

Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin answer some family mysteries when DNA detective work uncovers new branches of their family trees.

  • Tuesday July 12, 2022 8:00 pm ET on KET
  • Tuesday July 12, 2022 7:00 pm CT on KET
  • Thursday July 14, 2022 1:00 am ET on KET
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  • Friday July 15, 2022 7:00 pm ET on KET2
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  • Sunday July 17, 2022 12:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday July 16, 2022 11:00 pm CT on KET2

Secrets & Lies

Premiered On: 01/28/2020

Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado, and Amy Ryan discover revelations about their family histories, forever altering how they see themselves.

  • Tuesday July 19, 2022 8:00 pm ET on KET
  • Tuesday July 19, 2022 7:00 pm CT on KET
  • Thursday July 21, 2022 1:00 am ET on KET
  • Thursday July 21, 2022 12:00 am CT on KET
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  • Friday July 22, 2022 7:00 pm ET on KET2
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  • Sunday July 24, 2022 12:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday July 23, 2022 11:00 pm CT on KET2

Science Pioneers

Premiered On: 02/04/2020

Pioneering scientists Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold Varmus learn about their families.

  • Tuesday July 26, 2022 8:00 pm ET on KET
  • Tuesday July 26, 2022 7:00 pm CT on KET
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This Land is My Land - S6 E4

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Freedom Tales - S5 E5

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Grandparents and Other Strangers - S5 E1

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Dreaming of a New Land - S5 E4

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Breaking the Silences - S6 E15

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S8 E7 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 2/15/22

Fighters
S8 E6 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 2/8/22

Mexican Roots
S8 E5 Length 52:16 Premiere Date 2/1/22

Things We Don't Discuss
S8 E4 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 1/25/22

Children of Exile
S8 E3 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 1/4/22

Activist Roots
S8 E2 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 1/11/22

Hidden in the Genes
S8 E1 Length 52:11 Premiere Date 1/4/22

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Length 05:27 Premiere Date 3/10/22

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