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

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Forgotten Ellis Island, the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital, Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway
Language
eng
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videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
Forgotten Ellis Island
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videorecording
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Originally broadcast on television in 2008
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Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway
Runtime
57
Sub title
the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital
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
Technique
live action
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