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Florence Nightingale (1985)
Directed by Daryl Duke
Overview
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies 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, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Jaclyn Smith | Claire Bloom | Timothy Dalton | Timothy West | Peter McEnery | Stephan Chase | Jeremy Brett | Jeremy Child | Brian Cox | Lesley Dunlop | Michael Elwyn | Julian Fellowes | Richenda Carey | Aimée Delamain