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Ellis Island
Ellis Island

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Ellis Island

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Ellis Island

·1984·3 episodes

Summary

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

Crew

Creator

Fred Mustard Stewart

Status:

Ended

Original Language:

English

Type:

Scripted

Networks:

CBS

Keywords

immigration
american dream
immigrant
world war i
miniseries
ellis island
19th century
1910s