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Pamela Adlon Knows The Importance of Knowing Your Roots

Pamela Adlon opens up about how important she thinks it is for people to learn more about their family histories.
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Season 8 Episodes

Where Did We Come From?
S8 E10 Length 52:14 Premiere Date 04/19/22

Watchmen
S8 E9 Length 49:54 Premiere Date 04/12/22

Songs of the Past
S8 E8 Length 52:09 Premiere Date 02/22/22

Forgotten Journeys
S8 E7 Length 52:09 Premiere Date 02/15/22

Fighters
S8 E6 Length 49:54 Premiere Date 02/08/22

Mexican Roots
S8 E5 Length 49:54 Premiere Date 02/01/22

Things We Don't Discuss
S8 E4 Length 52:09 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Children of Exile
S8 E3 Length 52:20 Premiere Date 01/04/22

Activist Roots
S8 E2 Length 52:09 Premiere Date 01/11/22

Hidden in the Genes
S8 E1 Length 52:09 Premiere Date 01/04/22

Things We Don't Discuss Preview
Preview Length 00:32 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Kathryn Hahn is DNA Cousins with Regina King
Clip Length 01:00 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Kathryn Hahn Gets to the Bottom of a Family Scandal
Clip Length 01:30 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Pamela Adlon Learns About Her Relative’s Capture by Nazis
Clip Length 01:08 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Kathryn Hahn 3rd Great-Grandfather’s “New Family”
Clip Length 01:27 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Pamela Adlon's Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Rabbi
Clip Length 01:11 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Kathryn Hahn Reads Her Third Great-Grandfather's Obit
Clip Length 01:19 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Pamela Adlon's DNA Cousin is Meryl Streep
Clip Length 01:05 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Pamela Adlon Has an Aunt She Didn’t Know Existed
Clip Length 01:19 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Pamela Adlon Knows The Importance of Knowing Your Roots
Clip Length 01:02 Premiere Date 01/25/22

Season 8 Official Preview
Preview Length 03:07 Premiere Date 01/04/22

Season 8 Teaser
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 12/14/21

Season 8 Sneak Peek
Preview Length 02:00 Premiere Date 12/07/21

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The Ties That Bind - S11 E7

Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which include stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.

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Secret Lives - S9 E3

Comics Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash see family mysteries solved by DNA, exposing secrets that their ancestors concealed and celebrating the virtue of accepting one's relatives.

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Family: Lost and Found - S9 E6

Actor Joe Manganiello and football star Tony Gonzalez uncover close relatives whose names they never knew before.

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Hidden Kin - S9 E1

Actors Edward Norton and Julia Roberts discover their hidden connections to history.

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Caribbean Roots - S12 E3

Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colon-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.

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The Road We Took - S12 E4

Mapping the roots of actress Lizzy Caplan and comic Hasan Minhaj, moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to farmlands in northern India.

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The Ties That Bind - S11 E7

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Great Migrations - S12 E2

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American Dreams - S12 E1

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Larger Than Life - S11 E1

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Dreamers One and All - S11 E4

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