COMBO: BOOK: Finding Your Roots Season 2: The Official Companion Guide + 9 DVD Set: Finding Your Roots

COMBO: BOOK: Finding Your Roots Season 2: The Official Companion Guide + 9 DVD Set: Finding Your Roots

COMBO: BOOK: Finding Your Roots Season 2: The Official Companion Guide + 9 DVD Set: Finding Your Roots
This COMBO is comprised of the Book, Finding Your Roots Season 2: The Official Companion Guide to the PBS Series and a 9-DVD set, Finding Your Roots: Seasons 1, 2 and 3.

BOOK: Finding Your Roots Season 2: The Official Companion Guide

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of "Finding Your Roots," the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots and look further back in time than ever before. In the second season, Gates's investigation takes on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including Ken Burns, Stephen King, Derek Jeter, Governor Deval Patrick, Valerie Jarrett, and Sally Field. As Gates interlaces these moving stories of immigration, assimilation, strife, and success, he provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families' roots and details the advances in genetic research now available to the public. The result is an illuminating exploration of who we are, how we lost track of our roots, and how we can find them again.

Item:  3-DVD set,  FindingYour Roots, Season 1

Description: The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of this 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from
Professor Gates. Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, African American Lives, African American Lives 2 and Faces of America, Gates finds new ways to, as he says, "get into the DNA of American culture." He takes viewers along for the journey with one celebrity pair bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. And he treks through layers of ancestral history to uncover the secrets and surprises of their family trees.

Gates' guest pairings include...

Award-winning husband-and-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who are
revealed to be distant cousins

New Orleans jazz masters and close friends Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, whose European immigrant ancestors made very different choices in the slave-era South;


Spiritual leaders Angela Buchdahl, Yasir Qadhi and Rick Warren, whose ancestors'
paths to America were shaped by religious convictions; and

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Education superstar Geoffrey Canada and media legend Barbara Walters, who both
rediscover family histories long obscured by forgotten name changes.

Gates shares the findings with each guest and travels with them as they process what
they've learned. He accompanies musician John Legend to a rock concert, goes
backstage on Broadway with Samuel L. Jackson, joins Newark, New Jersey Mayor
Cory Booker as he reveals the root-seeking results to his parents, and trails
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Geoffrey Canada to memorable family reunions.

The series searches through several branches of the American past, leaving
audiences all the more curious about their own background and eager to unearth
their own family roots.

 

Item:  3-DVD set,  Finding Your Roots, Season 2 

Description:  Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series
African American Lives (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been
helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the
branches of their family trees. Now, in the second season of Finding Your Roots
with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing
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. Each of the 10 episodes highlights three celebrity guests, as Gates
guides them through layers of ancestral history, uncovering secrets and
surprises of their family trees and sharing life-altering discoveries.

Episodes include

In Search of Our Fathers - Stephen King, Gloria Reuben, Courtney B. Vance

Born Champions - Derek Jeter, Billie Jean King, Rebecca Lobo

Our American Storytellers - Ken Burns, Anderson Cooper, Anna Deavere Smith

Roots of Freedom - Ben Affleck, Khandi Alexander, Benjamin Jealous

The Melting Pot - Tom Colicchio, Aarón Sánchez, Ming Tsai

We Come from People - Angela Bassett, Valerie Jarrett, Nas

Our People, Our Traditions - Alan Dershowitz, Carole King, Tony Kushner

The British Are Coming - Deepak Chopra, Sally Field, Sting

Ancient Roots - Tina Fey, George Stephanopoulos, David Sedaris

Decoding Our Past through DNA - Ben Affleck, Jessica Alba, Tina Fey, Gov. Deval Patrick,
Sting, and more


 Running Time:   Approx. 600 minutes on 3 discs



 Item:  3-DVD set, FindingYour Roots, Season 3


Episodes include:


The Stories We Tell - Donna Brazile, Ty Burrell, Kara Walker

The Irish Factor - Bill O'Reilly, Bill Maher, Soledad O'Brien

In Search of Freedom - Shonda Rhimes, Maya Rudolph, Keenen Ivory Wayans

Tragedy + Time = Comedy - Bill Hader, Jimmy Kimmel, Norman Lear

Visionaries - Richard Branson, Frank Gehry, Maya Lin

Family Reunions - Sean Combs, LL Cool J

War Stories - Patricia Arquette, John McCain, Julianne Moore

The Pioneers - Sandra Cisneros, Neil Patrick Harris, Gloria Steinem

The Long Way Home - Lidia Bastianich, Julianna Margulies, Azar Nafisi

Maps  of Stars - Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow

This DVD features subtitles in English



Running Time:   Approx. 600 minutes on 3 discs



 

 

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