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Language. English. Midwives is a 2001 American television film, starring Sissy Spacek, Peter Coyote, Terry Kinney, Alison Pill and Piper Laurie. It was directed by Glenn Jordan. The film is based in the 1997 novel Midwives written by Chris Bohjalian. It was Lifetime's 100th Original Movie and had the highest rating in the network's history.
Pieces of a Woman is a 2020 drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó, from a screenplay by Kata Wéber.The film stars Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie, Jimmie Fails, and Ellen Burstyn as the family and associates of Martha (Kirby) involved in her traumatic childbirth, baby loss, and a subsequent court case against the midwife, Eva (Parker ...
Plot. Claire is a midwife at a maternity unit that is due to close. She is contacted by Beatrice, who had been her father's mistress many years before. After thirty years of silence, Beatrice has traced Claire, not knowing that her father had committed suicide shortly after she left him. Claire and Beatrice arrange to meet.
Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan. It tells the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and it was nominated for three Academy Awards ...
Call the Midwife. episodes. The cover of the DVD box set comprising the first nine series. Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who died shortly before the first episode was broadcast. [1] It is set in the 1950s and 1960s and for the first three series ...
Call the Midwife is reportedly preparing for a shakeup to its cast, as it prepares to say goodbye to one of its most popular characters.. Olly Rix, who plays Matthew Aylward, is said to be leaving ...
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
Martha Ballard. Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – June 9, 1812) was an American midwife and healer. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives. [1] Ballard was made famous by the publication ...