Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

- Season 5

(2019)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team use both DNA testing and detective work to uncover the history of a grandparent line and try to find missing relatives for actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin.

Actors Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams learn about the biological fathers they know little about.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team uncover the family stories of journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling.

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.

TV host Michael Strahan and actress S. Epatha Merkerson learn about the unusual circumstances surrounding their ancestors' success and suffering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.