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Finding Your Roots

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IMDb ratings graph for every episode of Finding Your Roots across all 13 seasons.

2012 · 13 seasons · PBS · Documentary

IMDb

8.7

2k ratings

TMDB

6.2

21 ratings

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Overview

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.

NetworkPBS

Runtime~60 min

Seasons13

Finding Your Roots holds an IMDb rating of 8.7 from 2K votes. Across its 20 rated episodes, the highest-rated is S1E1 "Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr." at 8.0, and the lowest is S1E5 "Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi" at 6.9. Season 1 is the strongest, averaging 7.8 per episode. Explore the full episode ratings graph below, season by season.

Peak8.0

S1E1Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

Low point6.9

S1E5Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Averages 7.7 across 20 rated episodes — strongest run is Season 1 at 7.8.