
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.

as Jacob Rubinstein

as Marco Santorelli

as Rebecca Weiler

as Georgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell

as Vanessa Ogden

as Madame Levitska

as Nellie Byfield

as Kathleen O'Donnell

as Abe Shulman

as Bridget O'Donnell

as Una Marbury

as Flora Mitchum

as Casey O'Donnell

as Violet Weiler

as Roscoe Haines

as Maud Charteris

as Sen. Phipps Ogden

as Dr. Carl Travers