Animated Hero Classics: Florence Nightingale

1993 • Directed by

Richard Rich

Animation, Family, Documentary

At the height of the Crimean War, English soldiers were wounded and dying by the hundreds. Into the rat and flea-infested facilities stepped a woman of uncompromising convictions, great patience and an iron will. Florence Nightingale, “The Lady of the Lamp,” changed the science and practice of nursing all over the world.