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Finding Your Roots S02E08 The British Invasion 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: 14-11-2014 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 British Are Coming (2x8)
Episode Plot:
From PBS - Three guests whose ancestry demonstrates the extraordinary influence of the British Empire during the 18th and early 19th century: Sally Field discovers that she descends from William Bradford, who arrived on the Mayflower and helped his fellow English Puritans establish their new lives in colonial America and later discovers that her ancestors sided with the British crown during our nation's War of Independence and paid the ultimate price; Deepak Chopra's family made a similar gamble while living under harsh British colonial rule in India, where his grandparents pledged their loyalty to the British in hopes of achieving a higher place in society, and later his father chose to fight alongside British soldiers during World War II; Sting's story goes back centuries in England where we find that being close to the seat of Empire doesn't mean that life is any better for those who fueled Great Britain's world dominance during the Pax Britannica by building its merchant ships and working in its coal mines, and who toiled under unbearable working conditions and Dickensian poverty--conditions that would lead to the "Age of Revolution," in which the young United States was a key player.
Episode Release:
2012-03-25
Episode Genre:
Documentary
Runtime:
53 min.
Staff:
Actors: Deepak Chopra, Sally Field, Henry Louis Gates, Sting Writers: Henry Louis Gates Directors: Hazel Gurland
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.
