Who Do You Think You Are?

Follow in the footsteps of selected celebrities as they track down their family trees with the help of expert historians, archivists and sociologists. The film crew gets up close and personal as the star of each episode roves around the country to investigate their own genealogy, which often reveals fascinating, upsetting and poignant truths about how people lived centuries ago. Famous actors, artists, politicians, athletes and entrepreneurs provide a running commentary on their innermost thoughts and private reflections as they uncover truths about their ancestors, which can reveal stories of people wrongly convicted of crimes, or orphaned in childhood and abandoned to their fates, or of people who performed heroic acts of bravery which went unreported and unrewarded at the time.