For half a century, Ellis Island was America's "Golden Door." Enterance meant an oppertunity of a new life. Rejection meant a return to hopelessness. This moving program uses hundreds of interviews from the "Ellis Island Oral History Project" to tell the incredible stories of immigration to America. Historians explore Ellis Island's sometimes insensitive policies. Rare photographs and films tell the true stories of those who passed through it's doors-many of whom would go on to change the country forever.