Finding Your Roots Our American Storytellers (Season 2, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Finding Your Roots

Our American Storytellers (Season 2, Episode 3)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Three iconic American storytellers, journalist Anderson Cooper, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, learn about their southern ancestors' role in the Civil War, and in Burns' case, the Revolutionary War.

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Ken Burns Self Self See fewer	The Central Park Five (2012)
Anderson Cooper Self Self See fewer	Anderson Cooper 360° (2003)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Self - Host (as Henry Louis Gates) Self - Host (as Henry Louis Gates) See fewer	12 Years a Slave (2013)
Anna Deavere Smith Self Self See fewer	The Human Stain (2003)