Lost & Found
Lost & Found

Lost & Found

2015 4 Seasons 33 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Reality Documentary

Lost & Found is a new ten part documentary series that sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family heritage. Each week seasoned investigative journalist David Lomas, along with a specialist search team of genealogists and researchers, tackles the cases of up to three seekers who are on an emotional journey to discover their family members and cultural pasts that they have not been connected to. Lost & Found is real, raw and - at times - heartbreaking as each episode showcases a basic primal need – just how important it is to know who we are and where we’ve come from. Tissues advised.

Lost & Found is a new ten part documentary series that sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family heritage. Each week seasoned investigative journalist David Lomas, along with a specialist search team of genealogists and researchers, tackles the cases of up to three seekers who are on an emotional journey to discover their family members and cultural pasts that they have not been connected to. Lost & Found is real, raw and - at times - heartbreaking as each episode showcases a basic primal need – just how important it is to know who we are and where we’ve come from. Tissues advised.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Episode 1

An Auckland woman is desperate to find her father; a top show jumper seeks the woman who adopted her out; and a retired

EP 2

Episode 2

A young father heads to Fiji to search for the woman who adopted him out when he was toddler. Later, a Rangiora mum face

EP 3

Episode 3

A Christchurch woman seeks the baby she has never seen or spoken about. A young mum seeks the father she has never met;

EP 4

Episode 4

A woman, raised by her grandparents, is looking for the father she's never known. And there's a major twist in store for

EP 5

Episode 5

A young mother, rescued from a Romanian orphanage and given a new life in New Zealand, heads back to Romania to try and

EP 6

Episode 6

A truck driver wants to find his father; a maintenance officer wants to make contact with his mother; and a nursing stud

EP 7

Episode 7

A Sydney mother of six is desperate to find the son she was forced to give up as teenager. Then, hoping to find her fath

EP 8

Episode 8

A man looks for the father who vanished after he was born; a woman seeks her father after being faced with a harsh new r

EP 9

Episode 9

An elderly man longs to find a long lost daughter; a woman searches for the father she's never met; and a young father i

EP 10

Episode 10

A Maori filmmaker searches for his Irish roots. A mother continues her search to find her father; and there's a surprise

EP 1

Episode 1

A Temuka man's emotional search for his Fijian Indian father and the cultural heritage he knows nothing of. Then, a Nels

EP 2

Episode 2

A Takaka woman returns to Romania to try and find the mother who gave her away. Then, a former Auckland street kid tries

EP 3

Episode 3

South Island brothers try to find the father who walked out on them 32 years ago. Then, A Waikato grandmother who was ad

EP 4

Episode 4

Hamilton twin sisters seek the Dad who they've never known. Then, a woman forcibly removed from her parents because they

EP 5

Episode 5

A Napier woman returns to Russia in search of the parents who placed her in an orphanage 20 years ago. Then, a Maori wom

EP 6

Episode 6

Lied to for 35 years, Samoan born Levin, goes in search of his son. Later, told her father was a criminal, now this fitn

EP 7

Episode 7

An Auckland man raised by his father's family searches for his mother. Then, a woman searches for her brother after her

EP 8

Episode 8

A Nelson family searches for answers in Austria about a mystery love child from WWII. Then, a man looks for the father h

EP 9

Episode 9

This week sees a shock revelation in a woman's search to find her American birth father. Later, a Whitianga woman seeks

EP 10

Episode 10

A 21-year-old woman flies to Bali to look for her family. Later, a Dunedin man searches for his birth father and cultura

EP 1

Episode 1

Taken at birth, the search for Isabelle's mother. Then, she never got to say goodbye to her son who was given up for ado

EP 2

Episode 2

She never knew her Dad, but he was a well-known entertainer. Will Caroline be prepared for what she finds? Then, he left

EP 3

Episode 3

A woman, raised by her grandparents, is looking for the father she's never known. And there's a major twist in store for

EP 1

Romania

Andrei from Christchurch was adopted in Romania as a baby and is now seeking to find his birth parents. Can David Lomas

EP 2

Rawiri and Dutch Dad

Rawiri was given up for adoption at birth and is looking for his mother, and a stay at home mum is looking for her Dutch

EP 3

Alison's Story and Shannon's Story

Alison wants to find her birth mother, but a message left on a missing person website turns her life upside down. And Sh

EP 4

Russian Redemption and Father Figures

After being sent to a Russian orphanage, Vika is desperate to know why her mother abandoned her. Plus, an ex-gang member

EP 5

Joining the Jones and Football Dad

Mike wants to be reunited with the son he abandoned, but no one was expecting what David Lomas finds. Then, Daniel is lo

EP 6

A British Affair and Love Triangle

Katie longs to find the father she's never known, but will he be willing to meet her? Later, a broken childhood left Cal

EP 7

The Bath Baby and Double the Loss

This local documentary series sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family he

EP 8

Regret and Secret Son

This local documentary series sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family he

EP 9

It's Time and My Mum

Maryanne has seen her mother once. 50 years later, she desperately wants to be reunited. Then, Lisa's father has always

EP 10

Change of Heart

David's initial search for Kate's birth father came to a devastating end. Now, after life changing events, she is desper

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