Florence Nightingale

TV Movie
2008
TV-PG
1h

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Starring Laura Fraser, this film brings to life the story of Florence Nightingale's spiritual and emotional breakdown after the Crimean War: a moment of crisis, doubt, and failure that ultim... Read allStarring Laura Fraser, this film brings to life the story of Florence Nightingale's spiritual and emotional breakdown after the Crimean War: a moment of crisis, doubt, and failure that ultimately inspired her revolutionary career in medicine.Starring Laura Fraser, this film brings to life the story of Florence Nightingale's spiritual and emotional breakdown after the Crimean War: a moment of crisis, doubt, and failure that ultimately inspired her revolutionary career in medicine.

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Great and rare attempt to record a legend into movie art form

To me, this is only half of Florence Nightingale story worthy putting into the art form of movie.

This first half is a great attempt, especially the "spirit" as manifested in the script such as "if you can't find it (the broom), make it (the context: when finally in the battlefield so called hospital, the man's world, when opportunity patiently waited to help out, with her team of female "amateur nurses", as the nursing profession yet to be born, the room they stay was dirty, and needs cleaning by brooms).

The other half of the yet to be made movie should describe the "Rose chart", that today even Excel spreadsheet could create yet, Nightingale made in around 1856. What a real pioneer in data visualisation among many innovations she made. Any brave director and investor to make the second half of the movie?