Finding Your Roots vs The Root of the Game
The Root of the Game 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 2026). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Finding Your Roots
The Root of the Game| Finding Your Roots | The Root of the Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2026 |
| Seasons | 12 | 1 |
| Genres | Documentary | 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.
The Root of the Game
Brazil lives, breathes and exports várzea. This series delves into the stories behind the beautiful game — one with the power to change lives.
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