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A Midwife's Tale (1998)
Directed by Richard P. Rogers
Overview
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman’s eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard’s massive but cryptic diary. “A Midwife’s Tale” chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
Rated NR | Length 89 minutes
Actors
Kaiulani Lee | Andrew Elvis Miller | J. Smith-Cameron | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich