Oranges and Sunshine (2010) on Netflix
R20101h 45mBiographyDramaHistory
Margaret Humphreys, a social worker in Nottingham, finds that Britain sent poor children to Australia and Canada under a scheme promising oranges and sunshine. She seeks the families it split.
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Plot summary
Poor children in the United Kingdom are sent to Australia and Canada under a resettlement program, and the children are known as home children. They are promised oranges and sunshine. What they find instead is hard labor and life in institutions, and the scheme separates them from their parents. Margaret Humphreys is a social worker in Nottingham, and she begins looking into the cases of these children and of the mothers and fathers who lost them. Families divided by the scheme now live in Australia and in the United Kingdom, and she sets out to find them and bring relatives back together.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
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- The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker who uncovered the "home children" scandal, a scheme that forcibly relocated poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
- Children deported under the "home children" scheme were promised "oranges and sunshine" but instead got hard labor in institutions such as Keaney College in Bindoon, Western Australia, and many suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Congregation of Christian Brothers.
