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Convents Drama East End (London, England) Drama England London London (England) Social conditions 20th century Drama Midwifery England London Drama Midwives England London Drama Nuns England London Drama Poplar (London, England) Drama Pregnant women England London 20th century Drama Pregnant women England London DramaSummary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALLSummary: The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bbc Us / Canada 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALL NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 5Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2016Summary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004Summary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2018Summary: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALLSummary: Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2013Summary: When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALL NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CA 6Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2017Summary: While vacationing in Egypt, Poirot intervenes when a jilted woman harasses her former friend and ex-boyfriend, but their Nile River cruise turns deadly nonetheless.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CAL RATED NRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Call 2012Summary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006