"An innovative dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. In a sparsely written diary, Ballard recorded her daily struggle against poverty, disease, domestic abuse and social turmoil. Two hundred years later, her world is painstakingly recreated by a historian seeking to understand eighteenth century America through a woman's eyes."--PBS website
Tells the story of two women, 200 years apart, linked together by the massive yet cryptic diary one of them left behind. The life and world of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution

Cataloging source

PX0

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Key advisor and collaborator, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ; directors of photography, Peter Stein, Steven Poster ; editors, William A. Anderson, Susan Korda ; music by Todd Boekelheide ; production designer, Nancy Deren ; costume designer, Kim Marie Druce

Dewey number

618.20233

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Kaiulani Lee (Martha Ballard), Ron Tough (Ephraim Ballard), Kevin Jubinville (Jonathan Ballard), Waneta Storms (Sally Pierce Ballard), Henriette Ivanans (Parthenia Barton), Patricia Welbourn (Hanna Ballard)

Runtime

88

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

A midwife's tale

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