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Ellis Island (1984)

Created by Fred Mustard Stewart

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

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  • 3 episodes
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Directing
Jerry London
Writing
Fred Mustard Stewart (Teleplay, Novel), Christopher Newman (Teleplay)
Music
John Addison, Zeljko Marasovich
Cinematography
Dudley Lovell, Ennio Guarnieri, Jack Hildyard
Editing
John J. Dumas, James Galloway, Bernard Gribble

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Details

Status
Ended
First air date
Nov. 11, 1984
Episode runtime
140 minutes
Original language
English
Networks
CBS