Finding Your Roots The shirts off their backs (Season 7, Episode 4)
TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

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Finding Your Roots

The shirts off their backs (Season 7, Episode 4)

TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

Actors Christopher Meloni and Tony Shalhoub learn about their ancestors who triumphed in America despite the horrific traumas they suffered in their youth in Italy, French Canada and the Otoman Empire.

Editor

Bruce Shaw

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Updated Feb 9, 2021

Release date

Feb 9, 2021 (United States)

Awards

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 4 nominations

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Tina Fey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Date Night (2010)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	12 Years a Slave (2013)
Kaiser Wilhelm II Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gewalt gegen Recht (1920)
Christopher Meloni Self Self See fewer	Man of Steel (2013)
Nancy Pelosi Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	30 Rock (2006)
Tony Shalhoub Self Self See fewer	Monk (2002)