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Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.

Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Out of the Past

Journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones learn about their ancestors.

Anchormen

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores race, culture and identity through genealogy and genetics.

Actors Brian Cox and Viola Davis explore their family trees for the first time.

S9 E5 | Rising From the Ashes