Finding Your Roots vs Wildest Places

Wildest Places 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 2019). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.

Finding Your Roots posterFinding Your Roots2012 VS Wildest Places posterWildest Places2019
Finding Your RootsWildest Places
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20122019
Seasons123
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
Creator / director––
Main castHenry Louis Gates, Jr.Kevin Spink

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.

Wildest Places

Wildest Places is a 12-part television documentary series exploring some of the most incredible natural habitats on the planet and an extraordinarily diverse range of wildlife. With series titled Wildest Pacific, Wildest Antarctica and Wildest Australia, it includes amazing never-before-seen footage filmed over more than 10 years. Wildest Places is a visual feast that showcases astonishing aspects of animal life in an untamed world and features…

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