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Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr S02E05 The Melting Pot 480p HDTV X264-mSD
TORRENT SUMMARY
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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TV Release: 2012-03-25 Torrent Release: 23-10-2014 by user TvTeam
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TV Show Genre:
Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery
Parental Rating:
[12+]TV-PG - Parental Guidance Suggested
This program contains material that parents mau find unsuitable for younger children. The theme itself may call for parental guidance and/or the program contains one or more of the following: moderate violance, some sexual sitatuion, infrequent course language, or some suggestive dialogue.
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Episode: The Melting Pot (2x5)
Episode Plot:
From PBS - Three celebrity chefs who cook the food of their ancestors discover family members who have shaped their lives -- and America's cuisine. Tom Colicchio of "Top Chef" learns the hardships his family endured (famine, bandits) living in a tiny town in Northern Italy and celebrates the courage of his original immigrant ancestor, a man who crossed the Atlantic many times to bring the Colicchios to the United States; Ming Tsai, the child of immigrants who fled Mao's Cultural Revolution, was raised to believe that his that his family's Chinese past was obliterated by the Communists -- instead, he finds that his roots can be traced back more than 2,000 years, yielding a large family tree; and Aaron Sanchez discovers that his family's treasured Mexican roots include people who were Spaniards, Africans and Native Americans.
Episode Release:
2012-03-25
Episode Genre:
Documentary
Runtime:
53 min.
Staff:
Actors: Henry Louis Gates, Tom Colicchio, Aarón Sánchez, Ming Tsai Writers: Henry Louis Gates Directors: N/A
Other episode info:
Awards: N/A. Originally recorded in N/A.
DESCRIPTION
Harvard educator Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts this enlightening PBS series that examines "the DNA of American culture" through an extensive discovery of the ancestors of today's celebrities. In each episode, a set of featured guests view their ancestral histories, learn connections, and discover secrets about their lineage, while sharing the emotional experience with viewers. Gates guides them as they see results and details derived from the background work competed by expert genealogical diagnosticians, who have analyzed genetic code and traced bloodlines that leads to documentation and the occasional confirmation or debunking of long-held beliefs. A variety of guests have included musicians, authors, chefs, and more. Actors who've made an appearance include Julianna Marguiles, Stephen King, Ben Affleck, Sally Field, Mia Farrow, Anderson Cooper, and many others.
