Forgotten Ellis Island the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital
(2009)
Nonfiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/362.110974/FORGOTTEN
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0793670241 FGEI601, 9780793670246, 6312900223, 841887010252
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Documentary
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
Title from container
Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi
Narrator, Elliott Gould
Originally broadcast on television in 2008
Not rated
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC
Closed-captioned