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Finding Your Roots Episode 1.06 Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Finding Your Roots Episode 1.06 Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Episode Premiere
April 28, 2012
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
Episode Premiere
April 28, 2012
Genre
Documentary
Period
2012 -
Production Co
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
Main Cast
  • Henry Louis Gates
  • Jr.
Additional Cast
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Robert Downey Sr.
  • Naomi Foner
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal

Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich tapestry of European immigrant stories making up their family trees. We delve in to their deep American roots in early colonial communities, and we meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories From the Mayflower to Ellis Island, we journey through centuries of immigration that shaped and built our melting pot nation.