Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Selects a collection of various well-known Americans of apparently different ethnocentric origins. He researches their ancestry and deoxyribonucleic acid to find out things about the background of each person and then presents the findings to them and us.

The presentation is in four one-hour parts. Each part has the same subjects. They are just taken back further in history or a different facet of their lives. The presentation style is in sound bite form, where Henry goes round-robin form from one person to the next and back again. This does not necessarily follow any logical pattern.

However, we find this fascinating, and it makes one speculate about one's origins. There are more in-depth presentations and more detailed in how they go about it. Nevertheless, this program stands well on its own.

"Who Do You Think You Are?" (2010 TV series documentary), U. S. version of the BBC series.