Finding Your Roots

Season 4: Inside Look

Preview: Season 4 | 1m 30s

The all-new, star-studded season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premieres on Oct 3!

Aired: 10/03/17

Rating: TV-G

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Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Five is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Lloyd Carney Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 10 Promo

Aziz Ansari, Maya Rudolph, and Amy Schumer join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 10 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 9 Promo

Questlove, Dr. Phil and Charlayne Hunter-Gault join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 9 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 8 Promo

Gaby Hoffmann and Téa Leoni join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 8 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 7 Promo

Carmelo Anthony, Ana Navarro and Lupita Nyong’o join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 7 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 6 Promo

Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Suzanne Malveaux join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 6 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 5 Promo

Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd and John Turturro join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 5 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 4 Promo

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay and Janet Mock join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 4 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 3 Promo

Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy Join Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 3 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 2 Promo

Fred Armisen, Carly Simon and Christopher Walken join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Preview: S4 | 30s

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 2 Promo

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Finding Your Roots

Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer

Season four of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premieres on October 3rd!

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Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer

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Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Trailer

“Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings” dig into their ancestry with genetics and genealogy.

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Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Trailer

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Finding Your Roots

Season 4 Official Trailer

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns with a new season on October 3rd!

Preview: S4 | 3m 22s

Season 4 Official Trailer

Preview: S4 | 3m 22s

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Episodes

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 10: Funny Business

Aziz Ansari, Maya Rudolph, and Amy Schumer join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep10 | 52m 11s

Episode 10: Funny Business

S4 Ep10 | 52m 11s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 9: Southern Roots

Questlove, Dr. Phil and Charlayne Hunter-Gault join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep9 | 52m 11s

Episode 9: Southern Roots

S4 Ep9 | 52m 11s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 8: Relatives We Never Knew We Had

Gaby Hoffmann and Téa Leoni join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep8 | 52m 41s

Episode 8: Relatives We Never Knew We Had

S4 Ep8 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 7: Children of the Revolution

Carmelo Anthony, Ana Navarro and Lupita Nyong’o join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep7 | 52m 25s

Episode 7: Children of the Revolution

S4 Ep7 | 52m 25s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 6: Black Like Me

Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Suzanne Malveaux join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep6 | 52m 41s

Episode 6: Black Like Me

S4 Ep6 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 5: Immigrant Nation

Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd and John Turturro join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep5 | 52m 41s

Episode 5: Immigrant Nation

S4 Ep5 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 4: The Vanguard

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay, and Janet Mock join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep4 | 52m 43s

Episode 4: The Vanguard

S4 Ep4 | 52m 43s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 3: Puritans and Pioneers

Ted Danson, William H. Macy and Mary Steenburgen join Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep3 | 52m 46s

Episode 3: Puritans and Pioneers

S4 Ep3 | 52m 46s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 2: Unfamiliar Kin

Fred Armisen, Christopher Walken and Carly Simon join Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

S4 Ep2 | 52m 45s

Episode 2: Unfamiliar Kin

S4 Ep2 | 52m 45s

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Finding Your Roots

Episode 1: The Impression

Larry David and Bernie Sanders join Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Finding Your Roots.

S4 Ep1 | 52m 44s

Episode 1: The Impression

S4 Ep1 | 52m 44s

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