Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Italian roots of Joy Behar & Michael Imperioli.
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Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Italian roots of Joy Behar & Michael Imperioli.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family trees of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli—two Americans whose roots stretch back to small towns in Calabria, Italy. Joy and Michael’s families lived in these towns for centuries, but their stories were lost on the journey to America. Gates reveals the challenges that their ancestors faced—and overcame—on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family trees of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli—two Americans whose roots stretch back to small towns in Calabria, Italy. Joy and Michael’s families lived in these towns for centuries, but their stories were lost on the journey to America. Gates reveals the challenges that their ancestors faced—and overcame—on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) - In this episode, Joy Behar and Michael Imperioli learn the secrets of their Italian ancestors.
- It's not where you end up, it's where you started from the counts.
- 19 years old, $12 in his pocket.
That's so wild.
(upbeat music) - You came that close to not ever being here.
- Wow.
- So they wanted to go in the woods to like have it, like a duel.
- Yeah.
- It's so Italian.
- All these people.
It means everything to me.
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Joy Behar Discovers Her Grandfather's Immigrant Story
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Joy Behar's grandparents move to America and forge a new life. (4m 3s)
The Train Accident in Michael Imperioli's Family History
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Michael Imperioli learns about his maternal great grandfather's death as a train worker in New York. (4m 2s)
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Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by...