Forgotten Ellis Island

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Elliott Gould, Mary C. McKitrick

Directors: Lorie Conway

Country: USA

Year: 2008

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 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.