- Overview
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.
- Release Date
01 January 1940
- DirectingWillard Van Dyke
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
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