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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The British Are Coming (2012– ) Online

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The British Are Coming (2012– ) Online
Original Title :
The British Are Coming
Genre :
TV Episode / Documentary / Biography / History / Mystery
Year :
2012–
Directror :
Hazel Gurland
Cast :
Deepak Chopra,Sally Field,Henry Louis Gates
Writer :
Henry Louis Gates
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
53min
Rating :
7.8/10
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The British Are Coming (2012– ) Online

From PBS - Three guests whose ancestry demonstrates the extraordinary influence of the British Empire during the 18th and early 19th century: Sally Field discovers that she descends from William Bradford, who arrived on the Mayflower and helped his fellow English Puritans establish their new lives in colonial America and later discovers that her ancestors sided with the British crown during our nation's War of Independence and paid the ultimate price; Deepak Chopra's family made a similar gamble while living under harsh British colonial rule in India, where his grandparents pledged their loyalty to the British in hopes of achieving a higher place in society, and later his father chose to fight alongside British soldiers during World War II; Sting's story goes back centuries in England where we find that being close to the seat of Empire doesn't mean that life is any better for those who fueled Great Britain's world dominance during the Pax Britannica by building its merchant ships and...
Episode credited cast:
Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra
Sally Field Sally Field - Herself
Henry Louis Gates Henry Louis Gates - Himself - Host
Sting Sting - Himself