Finding Your Roots vs Kevin Costner's The West
Kevin Costner's The West has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Finding Your Roots). Finding Your Roots is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Finding Your Roots
Kevin Costner's The West| Finding Your Roots | Kevin Costner's The West | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Seasons | 12 | 1 |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | US |
| Creator / director | – | Kevin Costner |
| Main cast | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Kevin Costner |
Synopsis
Finding Your Roots
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes 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.
Kevin Costner's The West
This fresh look at the epic history of the American West delves into the desperate struggle for the land itself – and how it still shapes the America we know today.
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