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Forgotten Ellis Island is a american film released in USA on 8 june 2008 with Elliott Gould

Forgotten Ellis Island (2008)

Forgotten Ellis Island
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Released in USA 8 june 2008
Length 1h2
OriginUSA
Rating73% 3.680473.680473.680473.680473.68047

Forgotten Ellis Island is a documentary film directed by Lorie Conway and narrated by Elliott Gould. A book of the same name by Lorie Conway, designed by Judith Stagnitto Abbate, was published by Smithsonian Books in 2007. The film took 9 years to produce and was supported by three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It portrays the story of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. The work premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service on February 9, 2009.



^ Chan, Sewell (26 October 2011). "Ellis Island’s Forgotten Hospital". New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2011.

^ * Conway, Lorie, Forgotten Ellis Island : the extraordinary story of America’s immigrant hospital, New York : Smithsonian Books : Collins, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-124196-3

^ "Forgotten Ellis Island". Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 2012-01-02.

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Elliott Gould
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