Finding Your Roots

The three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage. In an episode that crisscrosses the planet, from India to Korea to Poland, catch a glimpse of three distinct yet oddly overlapping experiences of families leaving their homes and becoming American.

All Episodes - Season 1

Episode 1

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

Episode 2

John Lewis and Cory Booker

Episode 3

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Episode 4

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Episode 5

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Episode 6

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Episode 7

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

Episode 8

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

Episode 9

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

Episode 10

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez