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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 24598
Released: May 5, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This stirring drama is based on the life of Florence Nightingale, an aristocratic woman who defied 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 of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and faced great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as "The Lady with the Lamp," the caring nurse whose shadow softened those wounded. From Emmy® Award-winning director Daryl Duke (TV's "The Thorn Birds") and writers Ivan Moffat and Rose Leiman Goldemberg (TV's "The Burning Bed") comes the classic TV movie starring Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton and Jeremy Brett, now available for the first time on DVD.
Florence Nightingale Reviews:
Classy and Relevant. 
2009-12-09 - I just stumbled upon this film at Books-A-Million the other day and watched it with my Grandmother. We were both intrigued. The film centers around the internal conflict of Miss Nightingale pursuing her calling as a nurse versus adhering to the traditional society pattern of marrying well and foregoing any type of career. While we as a society often think of nurses as a kind and gentle profession, this film really reveals to what lengths Miss Nightingale and her self-funded team of nurses went through to care for the soldiers that were being neglected by the British army. They have to travel and defy British military tradition and hierarchy. Miss Nightingale's flawless logic and adeptness with words is highlighted in the film. And Jacklyn Smith gives a very sophisticated and classy portrayal of Miss Nightingale, the Lady With The Lamp. Wonderful film.
Florence Nightingale is a Masterpiece!
2009-09-29 - I absolutely loved this movie and I am so glad I bought it for my home to view it over and over again. It is a wonderful story based on true facts from the life of Florence Nightingale who unselfishly gave up her life to help others. We can all learn from her fine example and discover just what this life has to offer and what we can do to improve it.
Film nonfit to History 
2009-09-16 - Sadly, the movie is not a really history. Now a days, we know that the job made by Florence wasn't enough good as the public believed, but her legend is standing from the job of others persons: Mary Seacole, an african-american from Jamaica, and the job maded by a british commision who ordered to clean the sewers that colaugh under the hospital of Scutari.
Sadly no one has made a film about Mary....perhaps for her origin, and apareance (very fat).
It is truth that Florence walked at night by the corridors, but the true reason was to control the sexual promiscuity of some nurses. Some of them had to be given back to England.
I don't judge a Jacklyn like an actress, nor the film as a very pretty film, but i think the public must know that the facts wasn't like the film.
One of the best tvmovies of the 80's....
2009-08-27 - This is arguably one of the best tv movies ever produced in the 80's. Sadly, they don't make movies like this anymore in hollywood now a days. The movie was actually released as a three-hour movie and not a miniseries in 1985. I still have a copy of this movie on VHS and it's great to get hold of this dvd version this time - much better quality. It's worth keeping this classic movie....from the production, to the music -- an outstanding film. Performance wise, I reckon Jaclyn Smith delivers her best performance in this film. She may not be in the same league like say Meryl Streep or Cate Blanchett but she's a very credible performer. I thought, she's really a standout during her quietest moments in the film. She just played it with grace and composure....
I'm giving this movie FIVE stars !!!
Florence Nightingale
2009-07-14 - I really liked this movie, it is sad but I think Jaclyn Smith did an excellent job in this film. The wardrobe was very authentic and the story stuck very close to real life. Love it.
