Finding Your Roots

Season 5

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.
Where to Watch Season 5
10 Episodes
  • Grandparents and Other Strangers
    E1
    Grandparents and Other StrangersEpisode 1
  • Mystery Men
    E2
    Mystery MenEpisode 2
  • Reporting on the Reporters
    E3
    Reporting on the ReportersEpisode 3
  • Dreaming of a New Land
    E4
    Dreaming of a New LandEpisode 4
  • Freedom Tales
    E5
    Freedom TalesEpisode 5
  • Roots in Politics
    E6
    Roots in PoliticsEpisode 6
  • No Laughing Matter
    E7
    No Laughing MatterEpisode 7
  • Hard Times
    E8
    Hard TimesEpisode 8
  • The Eye of the Beholder
    E9
    The Eye of the BeholderEpisode 9
  • All in the Family
    E10
    All in the FamilyEpisode 10
Cast of Season 5
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host
Watch Season 5 Videos
  • Finding Your Roots: Season 5
    Finding Your Roots: Season 5Trailer
 
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