Movies and TvShows featuring "orphan-train" theme.

In post-civil war America, a Union soldier's children are mistakenly sent away on the orphan train. Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove sets out to be reunited with his children, who are heading deep into the West aboard a train. With the help of a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave, they race to intercept the orphan train before all hope is lost.

In the bleak landscape of Minnesota, a series of murders occur that are linked to a dark secret from the past. As an investigation unfolds, a novice detective finds herself entangled in the sinister history of the region.

Billy, a streetwise kid from New York City, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family, the Andersons. Initially fearful and resentful, Billy doesn’t fit in, and he clashes with his new family and adoptive father (Frank Converse). Not until a terrible crisis occurs does Billy realize that, for the first time in his life, he truly belongs and is Home At Last.