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Where to Watch Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains (2021)

Name: Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2021-10-11
Duration: 57 min

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Explore the life of Mary Breckinridge and her efforts founding the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives traveled by horseback to provide healthcare to those living in a remote, mountainous region of Kentucky.

DocumentaryHistory 57 min

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Cast

Mary Breckinridge as Self (in Archival Footage)
Melanie Beals Goan
Susan Stone
Carlyle Carter
Joycelyn Elders