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Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Grandparents and Other Strangers
Tue, Jan 8, 201952 mins
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team use both DNA testing and detective work to uncover the history of a grandparent line for comedian Andy Samberg, whose mother wants to know who her parents who gave her for adoption as a baby were, and Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, who wants to know more about his grandfather who left his grandmother to start a new family. Both guests learn about deep family secrets they had no idea about which causes both joy and frustration for them.
Episode 2
Mystery Men
Tue, Jan 15, 201952 mins
Actors Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams learn about the biological fathers they know little about.
Episode 3
Reporting on the Reporters
Tue, Jan 22, 201952 mins
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team uncover the family stories of journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling.
Episode 4
Dreaming of a New Land
Tue, Jan 29, 201952 mins
Actress Marisa Tomei, business woman Sheryl Sandberg and actor Kal Penn learn about the challenge faced by their ancestors who immigrated from Italy, Russia and India to America.
Episode 5
Freedom Tales
Tue, Feb 5, 2019
TV host Michael Strahan and actress S. Epatha Merkerson learn about the unusual circumstances surrounding their ancestors' success and suffering.
Episode 6
Roots in Politics
Tue, Feb 12, 201952 mins
Republican politicians Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio and Democratic politician Tulsi Gabbard learn surprising facts about their ancestors including how their own choice of career may have been unwittingly inspired by them.
Episode 7
No Laughing Matter
Tue, Feb 19, 2019
Stand up comedians and TV stars Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman learn about their ancestors' hardships, flaws, successes, reinventions, and how all this indirectly affected them as well.
Episode 8
Hard Times
Tue, Feb 26, 2019
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and actresses Laura Linney and Chloë Sevigny learn the tragic truth about their ancestors' hardships including imprisonment, generational family trauma and child marriage.
Episode 9
The Eye of the Beholder
Tue, Apr 2, 201952 mins
Celebrated filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu learns how his ancestors fought for the rule of law in Mexico, world famous performance artist Marina Abramovic learns how wars and conservative Balkan upbringing scarred both her and her troubled parents for life, and renowned African American painter, Kehinde Wiley, learns about his heroic ancestors who fought for freedom only to face racism and injustice at home later on.
Episode 10
All in the Family
Tue, Apr 9, 2019
Comedian and Modern Family (2009) star Ty Burrell, and notable radio talk-show host and civil rights activist Joe Madison learn about their roots, which leads to many unexpected twists, shocking turns, and surprising similarities.
