Shot in Britain, Africa, the Caribbean and America, this film follows the three descendants of African slaves as they return to Africa armed with the science that will finally enable them to rediscover their lost African roots.

The ancestors of British African Caribbeans were deprived of their history as well as their freedom when they were packed into slave ships and transported over the Atlantic to the plantations of the Caribbean. Now, for the first time, groundbreaking genetic analysis makes it possible for some to discover just which part of Africa their ancestors came from.

Motherland: A Genetic Journey is the exclusive inside story of this pioneering project - an exciting partnership of science, history and people. By analysing genetic markers on samples taken from 230 men and women from Britain�s African Caribbean community, scientists in Britain and America are able for the first time to identify the geographic origins of the participants� maternal� and in the case of men, paternal � ancestors.

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