Finding Your Roots vs Somebody's Hiding Something

Somebody's Hiding Something 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 2023). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.

Finding Your Roots posterFinding Your Roots2012 VS Somebody's Hiding Something posterSomebody's Hiding Something2023
Finding Your RootsSomebody's Hiding Something
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20122023
Seasons122
GenresDocumentaryCrime, Documentary, Mystery
Country––
Creator / director––
Main castHenry 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.

Somebody's Hiding Something

When the leads dry up and a case goes cold, there’s only one thing that keeps investigators going—the hunch that Somebody’s Hiding Something. From grieving family and friends to jilted lovers and eyewitnesses, investigators pores over every detail and discrepancy to uncover the motive for the murder—along with the reason for suppressing a key piece of evidence. It’s a real-life psychological thriller, and every episode features a genuine murder…

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