HISTORY Lines Up Immigrant-Themed Event Series

HISTORY has scheduled America: Promised Land, a new two-day, four-part nonfiction event series, to mark the 125th anniversary of the opening of Ellis Island.

America: Promised Land will premiere on Monday, May 29, and Tuesday, May 30, at 8 p.m. The program showcases the chronological peopling of America and the various immigrant populations that have helped shape the country. It will include interviews with descendants of ancestors whose stories are featured throughout the event series and geographical imagery that illustrates the history of how America was populated. In addition, America: Promised Land highlights the struggles and hardships that some populations endured during their journey to America.

“Everybody has a story. Everybody comes from somewhere,” said Jana Bennett, the president and general manager of HISTORY. “Our ancestors were driven by opportunity and a vision for a new world. America: Promised Land is a timely series that will educate viewers on the successive waves of immigration that helped create the cultural fabric of America and show how far we have come.”

America: Promised Land is produced by Nutopia for HISTORY. Jane Root and Dominic Crossley-Holland serve as executive producers for Nutopia. Michael Stiller is the executive producer for HISTORY. A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights for America: Promised Land.