Recherche dans la collection - Angels of Mercy = Les Anges de la compassion

CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION

2001-0164

Vidéo

1 of 1

1994

English version
Sound Venture Productions
Canwest Global System

director, Katherine A. Jeans; producer, Katherine A. Jeans; Neil Bregman; executive producer, Neil Bregman; scenario, John Tarzwell; photography, Scott Plante; editing, Richard Millen; sound, Eldie Gouthro; music, Wayne Bartlett; narrator, Julie Khaner; research, Vivian Hanwell

Ontario Film Investment Program
Department of National Defence
Rogers Telefund

Documentary about the Canadian nursing sisters of the First and Second World War. Stock footage and stills are intercut with testimonies from these participating nursing sisters: Martha Froom, Marjorie Sanders, Helen Mussallem, Katharine Smith, Gaetane Kerr, Edna Millman and Hallie Sloan. Subjects include: the reasons why they chose to get involved with the military; the training involved; their dangerous journey on the Atlantic; the difficult conditions under which they worked and lived; the D-Day disaster and its casualties; the various types of patient-care administered; social outings and romantic liaisons between nurses and soldiers; and Armistice day and their return to Canada. <47mn 28s>

English

ARCAVWY130B731994

Libre

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Copyright owner: Sound Venture Productions.

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of the Canadian Nurses Association