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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Finding your roots (Television program). Season 6.

Title:

Finding your roots. Season 6 / producers, Josh Gleason [and 5 others] ; directors, Sabin Streeter, Krista Whetstone ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publisher, Date:

Arlington, VA : PBS Distribution, [2021]

Description:

3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

In sharing their stories, uses every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing to reveal long-buried secrets. Spanning the globe, the series compiles family trees that trace throughout the United States and Canada; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Germany, Poland, Ireland, Russia, and more.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TVPG.

Subjects:

Genealogy.

Celebrities -- United States -- Genealogy.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Genealogy.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Other Author:

Streeter, Sabin, television director.

Whetstone, Krista, television director.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., host, screenwriter.

Brown, Sterling K., on-screen participant.

Goldblum, Jeff, 1952- on-screen participant.

King, Gayle, on-screen participant.

Machado, Justina, 1972- on-screen participant.

Maron, Marc, on-screen participant.

McCarthy, Melissa, 1969- on-screen participant.

Queen Latifah, 1970- on-screen participant.

Rodriguez, Narciso, on-screen participant.

RuPaul, 1960- on-screen participant.

Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- on-screen participant.

Rae, Issa, on-screen participant.

Gross, Terry, on-screen participant.

Batiste, Jon, 1986- on-screen participant.

Von Furstenberg, Diane, on-screen participant.

Peele, Jordan, 1979- on-screen participant.

O'Donnell, Norah, on-screen participant.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Finding your roots : with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 6

Finding your roots. Season six

Notes:

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2019-2021.

Wide screen (16x9).

Host, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Guests: Sterling K. Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Gayle King, Justina Machado, Marc Maron, Melissa McCarthy, Queen Latifah, Narciso Rodriguez, RuPaul Charles, Sigourney Weaver, Issa Rae, Terry Gross, Jon Batiste, Diane von Furstenberg, Jordan Peele, Norah O'Donnell.

DVD, wide screen (16x9); NTSC, region 1; stereo.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.

Title from disc surface.

English SDH.

Contents:

Hollywood royalty (Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow, Isabella Rossellini) -- Off the farm (Melissa McCarthy, Eric Stonestreet) -- Homecomings (Sterling K. Brown, Sasheer Zamata, Jon Batiste) -- This land is my land (Queen Latifah, Jeffrey Wright) -- Beyond the pale (Jeff Goldblum, Terry Gross, Marc Maron) -- Secrets & lies (Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado, Amy Ryan) -- Science pioneers (Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, Harold E. Varmus) -- Slave trade (Ava DuVernay, S. Epatha Merkerson, Questlove) -- Italian roots (Jimmy Kimmel, Marisa Tomei, John Turturro) -- Criminal kind (Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, Soledad O'Brien) -- Fashion's roots (Diane van Fürstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, RuPaul Charles) -- DNA mysteries (Ann Curry, Téa Leoni, Joe Madison) -- War stories (Kehinde Wiley, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader) -- Flight (Lupita Nyong'o, Lidia Bastianich, Scarlett Johansson) -- Breaking silences (Gayle King, Jordan Peele, Issa Rae) -- Coming to America (Nancy Pelosi, Norah O'Donnell, Zac Posen).

ISBN:

9781531712839

1531712835

Publisher Number:

FIYO6601

Other Number:

1232485639

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

883458

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 929.1 Finding