Season 12 • Episode 9
UpcomingHenry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family secrets of Danielle Deadwyler and Rhiannon Giddens, uncovering stories their ancestors once hid.
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.
Writing
Gates crafts narratives that make strangers feel like family.
Production
Stunning archival research brings dead ancestors vividly to life.
Direction
Perfect reveal timing—reality TV editing at its most manipulative-best.
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