Finding Your Roots (2012)

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self - Host
• CeCe Moore as Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert
• Derek Jeter as Self
• Anderson Cooper as Self
• Tom Colicchio as Self
• Angela Bassett as Self
• Valerie Jarrett as Self
• Alan Dershowitz as Self
• Tony Kushner as Self
• Sally Field as Self

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