Ever since the Mayflower pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, immigrants have come to America to escape religious persecution.

Ever since the Mayflower pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, immigrants have come to America to escape religious persecution: Amish and Mennonites, Jews and evangelical Christians, Huguenots from France, Baha'is from Iran, Chinese practicing their esoteric Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists. The idea of America as a haven for those seeking freedom to worship looms large in the American imagination. The program features a Tibetan woman who fled persecution by Chinese communists; Hasidic Jews who fled Nazi Germany; and the immigration of the Amish and Mennonite people to America more than 300 years ago.