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The Butterfly Effect

Year

2025

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

1h 0m

Rating

TVPG

Performers

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Directed By

Krista Whetstone

Publication Information

PBS

Summary

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.

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