Ellis

Ellis

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 4, 2015

Runtime

0h 14m

Genres

Drama

User Score

67%

Original Title

Ellis

Production Companies

Unframed USA

Director

JR

Description

Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose pursuit of a new life led them to the now-shuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Following its opening in 1902, approximately 1.2 million people passed through the facility, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from the windows. Languishing in a sort of purgatory awaiting their fate, many were never discharged.