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Released
1985 · FILM

Florence Nightingale

The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing known as 'the Lady with the Lamp'.

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Runtime
140 min
DramaTV Movie
Streaming on
  • BritBox

Synopsis

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.

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Principal cast & crew: 21

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Bill LennyShot by Jack HildyardScored by Stanley MyersDesigned by Harry Pottle

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