Finding Your Roots vs Road Wars
Road Wars has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Finding Your Roots). Road Wars is the older of the two (2003 against 2012). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Finding Your Roots
Road Wars| Finding Your Roots | Road Wars | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2003 |
| Seasons | 12 | 8 |
| Genres | Documentary | Crime, Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Creator / director | – | – |
| Main cast | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | – |
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.
Road Wars
Follows the extraordinary work of some of Britain's most elite units and police officers, documenting the changing tactics of criminals and the response of the UK police forces.
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