A midwife's tale / Blueberry Hill Productions ; a film by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Richard P. Rogers ; directed by Richard P. Rogers ; written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.

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"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, domesti...

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Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Main Author: Boekelheide, Todd (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Orison (Musical group) (Performer)
Blueberry Hill Productions (Production company)
PBS Home Video (Film distributor)
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Rogers, Richard P. (Television director)
Kahn-Leavitt, Laurie (Screenwriter, Television producer)
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938- (Consultant)
Lee, Kaiulani (Actor)
Tough, Ron (Actor)
Jubinville, Kevin (Actor)
Storms, Waneta, 1968- (Actor)
Ivanans, Henriette (Actor)
Welbourn, Patricia (Actor)
Stein, Peter, 1943- (director of photography.)
Poster, Steven, 1944- (director of photography.)
Anderson, William A. (Filmmaker) (Editor of moving image work)
Korda, Susan (Editor of moving image work)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2005]
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Ballard, Martha, > 1735-1812 > Drama.
Hallowell (Me.) > Biography > Drama.
Augusta (Me.) > Biography > Drama.
Kennebec River Valley (Me.) > Social life and customs > Drama.
Midwives > United States > Biography > Drama.
Midwives > Maine > Hallowell > Biography > Drama.
Midwives > Maine > Augusta > Biography > Drama.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, > 1938- > Film adaptations.
Ballard, Martha, > 1735-1812.
Manners and customs.
Midwives.
Maine > Augusta.
Maine > Hallowell.
Maine > Kennebec River Valley.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Film adaptations.
Biography
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Midwives tale.
Format: Video DVD

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500 |a Based on the book "A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. 
500 |a Originally produced as an episode of the PBS television program American Experience in 1997. 
500 |a Special features include: Teacher's guide (DVD-ROM pdf). 
500 |a Videorecording. 
511 1 |a 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). 
508 |a Key advisor and collaborator, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ; directors of photography, Peter Stein, Steven Poster ; editors, William A. Anderson, Susan Korda ; music by Todd Boekelheide ; music performed by Orison (Barry Phillips, Deby Benton Grosjean, William Coulter, Shelley Phillips, Lars Johannesson) ; production designer, Nancy Deren ; costume designer, Kim Marie Druce. 
521 8 |a MPAA rating: Not rated. 
520 |a "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. 
520 |a 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. 
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