Release Date

11 Nov, 1984

Runtime

02:20: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

3/1

Synopsis

THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.

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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Season 1

11 Nov, 1984

Created By

Actors

Peter Riegert

Gregory Paul Martin

Claire Bloom

Judi Bowker

Kate Burton

Joan Greenwood

Ann Jillian

Lila Kaye

Stubby Kaye

Alice Krige

Cherie Lunghi

Melba Moore

Milo O’Shea

Emma Samms

Ben Vereen

Faye Dunaway

Richard Burton

Michael Byrne

Barrie Holland

Crew

Jerry London

Fred Mustard Stewart

Christopher Newman

Fred Mustard Stewart

Fred Mustard Stewart

Nick Gillott

Patricia Johnson

Barry Jossen

Gabriel Katzka

Frank Konigsberg

Jerry London

John Addison

Zeljko Marasovich

Ennio Guarnieri