Across the Sea of Time (1995)

"Across the Sea of Time" is a 1995 Adventure movie directed by Stephen Low and starring by Peter Reznick, John McDonough. A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography.