Florence Nightingale [videorecording] Cypress Point Productions [and] Sony Pictures Television ; produced by Ron Carr and Tony Richmond ; story by Ivan Moffat ; teleplay by Ivan Moffat and Rose Leiman Goldemberg ; directed by Daryl Duke.
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33: 1); 4 3/4 in. 4 3/4 in.
Audience: Not rated. Originally broadcast as a television motion picture in 1985. Title from container. Cast: Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West, Peter McEnery, Stephan Chase, Ann Thornton, Jeremy Brett.
Summary:
Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,' the caring nurse whose shadow softened those who had been wounded in battle.
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