Jan 01, 1940
13 min
Full-HD

The Children Must Learn (1940)

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Linking education and economic development, The Children Must Learn suggests that better schooling, especially in agricultural techniques, would bring improvement.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Educational Film Institute of New York University

Myron McCormick

Narrator (voice)

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