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Finding Your Roots
Returning Series
60 min
8.7/10 Votes: 1702
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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Top Movies & TV Shows Similar to My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman List
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Top Movies & TV Shows Similar to The Good Lord Bird List
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Top Movies & TV Shows Similar to Identity Thief List
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Top Movies & TV Shows Similar to Punk'd List
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- 30 Rock - Contains a lot of absurd humor and comedic setups akin to prank culture.
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- The Amazing Race - Competitive reality show where unexpected and humorous situations arise.
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