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Finding Your Roots
In the Blood
Season 10
Episode 9
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Michael Douglas & writer-director Lena Dunham. Both guests are the children of famous artists—and both proudly followed in their parents’ footsteps. But their family trees contain a cast of characters whose lives were forgotten. Gates recovers them, telling fascinating stories from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the streets of colonial America.
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52:10
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. solves mysteries for 3 everyday Americans chosen to be guests.
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52:11
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps family trees of comedian Tracy Morgan & actor Anthony Ramos.
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52:11
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shares ancestry with actor Danielle Brooks & singer Dionne Warwick.
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52:11
Sunny Hostin and Jesse Williams discover ancestors from very diverse places.
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52:11
Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger—two very funny people whose family trees brim with drama
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52:11
Sammy Hagar and Ed O’Neill discover the dramatic stories hidden within their own roots.
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52:11
LeVar Burton & Wes Studi grew up fatherless, haunted by questions about their family trees
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52:11
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unearths the hidden roots of Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser.
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52:12
Explore the roots of Alanis Morissette and Ciara and their hidden connections to history.
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52:11
Henry Louis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley.
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52:11
Journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones uncover the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
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52:11
Henry Louis Gates reveals the unexpected family trees of Angela Y. Davis and Jeh Johnson