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1) Home at Last
Publisher
Feature Films for Families, distributor
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Based on real orphan trains which resettled children in the Midwest at the turn of the century. Billy, a streetwise kid from New York, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Young minister Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, sending orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. Until 1929, Brace's Society and other charities sent more than 150,000 neglected children by train to 47 states.
Publisher
Smoky Hills Public Television
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Combines archival material with interviews with actual orphan train riders, rider descendants and historical consultants. Program helps create awareness of the Orphan Train Era and preserve the history of the movement and those who were a part of it.--Website.
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