Forgotten Ellis Island [videorecording] : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital / Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.
Publisher: [Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]
ISBN: 0793670241
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Ellis Island Hospital.
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).
Hospitals Admission and discharge Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.).
Registers of births, etc. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.).
United States Emigration and immigration History 20th century.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
Performers: Narrator, Elliott Gould.
Target Audience: Not rated.
Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 2008.
Closed-captioned.
Documentary.
Title from container.
Summary: In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
