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Release Date:
January 19, 1998
Original Title:
A Midwife's Tale
Alternate Titles:
A Midwife's Tale (American Experience)
A Midwife's Tale: American Experience
American Experience: A Midwife's Tale
Genres:
Documentary | History | TV Movie
Production Companies:
Blueberry Hill Films
GBH
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 89
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
Director:
Richard P. Rogers
Director of Photography:
Steven Poster
Peter Stein
Makeup Artist:
Elizabeth Kuchurean
Original Music Composer:
Todd Boekelheide
Producer:
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Production Design:
Nancy Deren
Property Master:
Gary Allen Ferguson
Set Decoration:
Rowena Rowlings
Writer:
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
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