Genealogy/Family Stories
by sophiehaire-39490 | created - 3 months ago | updated - 2 months ago | PublicList of family history or genealogy adjacent media (including genetic genealogy).
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1. Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
Stars: Mark Strong, Phil Davis, Cherie Lunghi, David Morrissey
Votes: 1,225
2. Ant & Dec's DNA Journey (2019– )
Documentary
Celebrities embark on a life-changing journey to explore their family history. Alongside their best mate or family member, the celebs will set off on the ultimate road trip as they discover family members they never even knew existed.
Stars: Rory McCann, Michael McElhatton, Michala Hulme, Paul Edward McNeil
Votes: 69
3. Long Lost Family (2011– )
TV-PG | Reality-TV
This series helps people reunite with long-lost family members. Investigators pick up the search when the trail has gone cold.
Stars: Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell, Peter Arundel, Elsie Brockbank
Votes: 258
4. Long Lost Family: What Happened Next (2014– )
Documentary
British spin-off of the ITV show Long Lost Family.
Stars: Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell, Ariel Bruce, Pearse Egan
Votes: 23
5. DNA Family Secrets (2021– )
59 min | Documentary
With the help of one of the UK's leading geneticists, Professor Turi King, Stacey Dooley helps to answer people's burning questions about their family, health or ancestry with a visit to a DNA testing clinic.
Stars: Stacey Dooley, Turi King
Votes: 73
6. Found (I) (2021)
PG | 97 min | Documentary, Drama
The story of three American teenage girls-each adopted from China-who discover they are blood-related cousins on 23andMe. Their online meeting inspires the young women to confront the burning questions they have about their lost history.
Director: Amanda Lipitz | Stars: Lily Bolka, Chloe Lipitz, Sadie Mangelsdorf, Liu Hao
Votes: 1,435
7. Our Father (III) (2022)
TV-MA | 97 min | Documentary, Crime
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Director: Lucie Jourdan | Stars: Jacoba Ballard, Julie Harmon, Matt White, Heather Woock
Votes: 14,485
8. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone
Votes: 39,817 | Gross: $12.32M
9. Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter (2020)
Documentary, Biography, History
Prue Leith and her adopted daughter Li-Da travel to Cambodia, as together they explore Li-Da's Cambodian roots and heritage, in this intimate and revealing documentary.
Director: Lottie Gammon | Stars: Li-Da Kruger, Prue Leith
Votes: 11
10. Born from the Same Stranger (2024– )
Biography
Everyone born from a donor might have siblings they had no idea existed, who were born from the same stranger. Here, a man gets instant results putting his DNA on websites.
Votes: 10
11. H£ir Hunt£rs (2007– )
45 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
This series follows the work of a firm of Probate investigators, Fraser & Fraser, who trace surviving family members when somebody dies intestate so they can claim the cash before HM Treasury does.
Stars: Nadia Sawalha, Lisa Faulkner, Edgar Jones, David Pacifico
Votes: 38
12. Heir Hunters (2005 TV Special)
30 min | Reality-TV
Inheritance investigators race the clock to find the heirs to unclaimed money.
Director: Sara Hutchison | Stars: David Hilbert, John Hilbert, Shar Mansukhani
Votes: 21
13. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Two leading British criminal barristers re-investigate historic murder cases on behalf of a relative of the person convicted of the crime, presenting any new evidence to a judge for assessment.
Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford
Votes: 111
14. The Genetic Detective (2020)
Documentary, Crime, Mystery
The Genetic Detective follows investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore as she uses her unique research skills to transform the face of crime solving.
Stars: CeCe Moore, Steve Armentrout, Ellen Greytak, Chris Meihis
Votes: 386
15. Relative Race (2016– )
TV-G | Reality-TV
With their own DNA as a roadmap, and $25,000 on the line, four couples must race coast-to-coast and discover a different relative every day.
Stars: Thaddeus Ervin, Devin T Dobson, Rolexis Delaney, Rebecca Dalton
Votes: 246
16. Relative Race - After the Finish Line (2020– )
Reality-TV
Stars: Rebecca Hoyt, Mike Brown, Austen Williams
17. Long Lost Family (II) (2016– )
Documentary, Drama
This American television series helps people reunite with long lost family members.
Stars: Chris Jacobs, Lisa Joyner, Jeanette Yoffe, Joanna Fiore
Votes: 270
18. Long Lost Family (I) (2016– )
43 min
This Australian television series helps people reunite with long lost family members.
Stars: Anh Do, Chrissie Swan, Julia Robson
Votes: 20
19. Long Lost Family (I) (2016– )
43 min
This Australian television series helps people reunite with long lost family members.
Stars: Anh Do, Chrissie Swan, Julia Robson
Votes: 20
20. Long Lost Family: What Happened Next (2017– )
American spin-off of the TLC show Long Lost Family.
Star: Chris Jacobs
Votes: 10
21. DNA Detectives (2015– )
New Zealand celebrities offer up their DNA for analysis, and set off around the world to follow the clues, contained in the samples, and determine where they came from.
Stars: Richard O'Brien, David Fane, Amanda Billing, Kirk Torrance
22. Bloodline Detectives (2020– )
45 min | Documentary
Explores the power of genealogy and the latest forensic technology used by law enforcement bring justice to unsolved homicides and sex crimes.
Stars: Piers Gibbon, Nancy Grace, Derek Wall, Mark Connolly
Votes: 101
23. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.
Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., CeCe Moore, Anita Hill, Ty Burrell
Votes: 1,641
24. Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings (2017–2018)
"Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings" follows 13 young people at a genetics and genealogy summer camp as they explore their family histories with techniques never before used in an educational setting.
Stars: Kristian Berg, Nina Jablonski, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Brandon Ogbunu
25. Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal (2022– )
Crime
In the early days of the internet all kinds of businesses rush to get online, and the web becomes the new wild west. When one couple in Wales "log on" and pay $12,000 to adopt two baby twins from America it causes world-wide outrage.
Votes: 14
27. Dara Ó Briain: So Where Were We? (2023 TV Special)
58 min | Comedy
Director: Maurice Linnane | Star: Dara O Briain
Votes: 14
28. African American Lives (2006–2008)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
This 4 part PBS series attempts to trace the roots of 8 guests using genealogy, oral history, family stories, and DNA analysis.
Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Tucker, Oprah Winfrey
Votes: 162
29. Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2010)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Our American Stories exploring the dynamic and shifting relationship America had with her new immigrants in the 20th century. Becoming American - exploring the many journeys to becoming ... See full summary »
Stars: Meryl Streep, Stephen Colbert, Mike Nichols, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Votes: 101
30. A House Through Time (2018– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Ian Hislop, Gaynor Evans
Votes: 196
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