A 12-episode Limited Television Series

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In the decades preceding WWII, hundreds of thousands of talians flocked to our shores in hopes of starting new lives in a land that promised freedom and opportunity. They emigrated through the Great Hall of Ellis Island, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, and spilled out into the streets of New York City and beyond in anticipation of a kind of renaissance.

Based on the novel of the same name written by Joseph Orazi, L’America follows the journeys of three families who board the Santa Ana in 1915 through the port of Palermo. For thirteen days, they share brutal passage in steerage. But the voyage is only the beginning of their trials. Eventually, they settle in New York City, Cleveland, and Monterey, California. Immigration in the early twentieth century was complicated at best. But assimilation proved an even more greater challenge. The confused and frightened Italian in America is embodied in the lives of Giuseppe Mosca, Aldo Grimaldi, and Paolo LaChimia, as they make their way in a world in conflict with their heritage.