Forgotten Ellis Island : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital / a film by Lorie Conway ; Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.

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 gra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Conway, Lorie, 1954-
Corporate Authors:	WGBH Educational Foundation PBS Home Video
Other Authors:	Gould, Elliott
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:	Ellis Island Hospital. Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) Hospitals, Federal > history. Communicable Disease Control > history. Emigrants and Immigrants > history. Emigration and Immigration > history. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Mass Screening > history. New York (State) New York. Hospitals > Admission and discharge > Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) Registers of births, etc. > Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) Emigration and immigration. Hospitals > Admission and discharge. Registers of births, etc. United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century. United States. United States > Ellis Island. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Television programs > United States. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. History. 1900 - 1999
Genre:	Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired. History.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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