Finding Your Roots
Episode 1: The Impression
Season 4 Episode 1 | 52m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Larry David and Bernie Sanders join Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Finding Your Roots.
Larry David discovers his German heritage by way of ancestors who settled in Mobile, Alabama in the mid-19th century — including one who became a slaveholding Confederate; Bernie Sanders gains greater understanding of his father’s dangerous childhood in Austrian Galicia during World War I.
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Finding Your Roots
Episode 1: The Impression
Season 4 Episode 1 | 52m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Larry David discovers his German heritage by way of ancestors who settled in Mobile, Alabama in the mid-19th century — including one who became a slaveholding Confederate; Bernie Sanders gains greater understanding of his father’s dangerous childhood in Austrian Galicia during World War I.
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