PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [3 Discs]

PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [3 Discs]

PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [3 Discs]

PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [3 Discs]

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Overview

"As one of the world's leading sociologists, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. produced a series of documentaries for public television that draw on such resources as genealogy and DNA investigation to provide an epic-length chronicle of the history of African Ameri

Product Details

Release Date: 10/05/2010
UPC: 0841887013093
Original Release: 2010
Rating: NR
Source: Pbs (Direct)
Region Code: 1
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 16:00:00
Sales rank: 47,524

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - African American Lives
2. Discovering African Heritage [4:31]
3. The Relatives We Know [7:14]
4. The Great Migration [14:41]
5. Saving Graces [8:05]
6. Time for a Change [7:50]
7. Owning Land [10:05]
2. From Slavery To Freedom [5:31]
3. The Power of Property [6:40]
4. Education Is Freedom [3:27]
5. Reconstructing Family [5:59]
6. Control Over Their Destiny [6:02]
7. Turbulent Times [8:10]
8. Solving Mysteries with Science [6:28]
9. Lives in Spite of Everything [5:23]
10. The Science Doesn't Lie [5:43]
1. Branch By Branch [2:13]
2. The Tomb of Slavery Speaks [4:31]
3. The Civil War [7:14]
4. Free Blacks [14:41]
5. An Enclave of Freedom [8:05]
6. A Trial [7:50]
7. First Generation African Americans [10:05]
1. What DNA Can Tell Us About Our Families [2:13]
2. Percentages [6:55]
3. Surprising Ancestry [12:15]
4. What Is Africa? [7:48]
5. Patrilineal and Matrilineal DNA [5:31]
6. Providing Context [7:09]
7. Back to Africa [6:22]
8. Completing the Circle [6:25]
Disc #2 -- PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - African American Lives 2
2. Introduction [3:53]
3. Taking Home with You [11:13]
4. Segregation Shaped Me [5:26]
5. No Man's Land [9:10]
6. Protestations of Innocence [7:54]
7. Passing [5:22]
8. Foundations of Home [11:08]
2. Introduction [2:17]
3. Fighting for Freedom [5:43]
4. Reinventing the Past [3:15]
5. A People Without a Country [6:16]
6. New Rights [9:13]
7. Side By Side [10:37]
8. Full Equality [10:12]
9. Bleak Prospects [6:32]
10. Foundations for Change [:00]
2. Introduction [3:31]
3. A Petition for Existence [5:25]
4. Do Unto Others [5:42]
5. Lost Identities [3:31]
6. A Degree of Stability [4:21]
7. Sale and Separation [5:17]
8. Power Relations [8:28]
9. A Heartbreaking Contradiction [6:44]
10. Reaching for Closure [11:06]
11. Chapter 11 [:00]
2. Introduction [3:53]
3. European Ancestry [11:13]
4. The Native American Myth [5:26]
5. Tangled Roots [9:10]
6. A Deep Connection [7:54]
7. Unchanged DNA [5:22]
8. The Voyage [11:08]
Disc #3 -- PBS Explorer Collection: Exploring Our Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr - Faces Of America
1. Introduction [6:11]
2. The Family Tree [8:59]
3. 3 Generations to Make a Musician [9:09]
4. Identity Through Color [9:19]
5. Immigration and Fate [13:02]
6. American Loyalty [6:24]
7. Credits [2:00]
1. Introduction [4:42]
2. Roots Across Continents [9:12]
3. A Better Life in America [9:41]
4. Segregation and Discrimination [12:45]
5. The Question of Race [11:08]
6. Citizenship [5:06]
7. Credits [2:31]
1. Introduction [5:37]
2. Stories from the Past [10:45]
3. Tragic Interactions [8:16]
4. Home in a New Place [9:39]
5. Roots in Pennsylvania [8:05]
6. The Beginning of the Melting Pot [10:43]
7. Credits [2:01]
1. Introduction [6:28]
2. The Deepest of Roots [9:25]
3. The Importance of Ancestors [8:25]
4. Admixture & Pie Charts [8:44]
5. We Are Family [11:30]
6. Contemplating Your Own History [8:11]
7. Credits [2:35]
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