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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 5, 1985

Runtime

2h 20m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

53%

Original Title

Florence Nightingale

Production Companies

Cypress Point Productions

Director

Daryl Duke

Description

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.