Faces Of America
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| First episode date | February 10, 2010 |
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| Final episode date | March 3, 2010 |
| Presented by | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| Networks | Public Broadcasting Service |
| Cast | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| Feb 24, 2010 | |
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| ID | 1126487 |
About Faces Of America
A poet learns she is distantly related to a king of England. A famous actress finds that one of her ancestors participated in the founding of the United States. Using the most up-to-date technology and tools of genealogy and genetics, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. unravels that tapestry of America to trace the threads of history of several well-known Americans. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is stunned to hear details of an ancestor's birth in 1435. Actress Eva Longoria is entranced by the notation of her ancestor's appointment to a post in Mexico in 1603, years before the sailing of the Mayflower. Gates also examines the ancestry of Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Streep, Mario Batali and Stephen Colbert, among others. …
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