Nurse Jackie is a dark comedy that follows the life of Jackie Peyton, a skilled emergency room nurse with a secret drug addiction. Balancing her demanding job, a troubled marriage, and her addiction becomes increasingly challenging as Jackie tries to keep her double life hidden. Set in a New York City hospital, the show explores themes of drug addiction, infidelity, and the complexities of balancing personal and professional life in the medical field.
Call the Midwife follows the lives of a group of midwives who work in the impoverished East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s. They face the challenges of providing care to expectant mothers in a time of poverty, persecution, and bigotry. The series explores their personal lives as well, including their relationships with each other and with the nuns of the convent where they live.
Code Black is a medical drama series that takes place in the emergency department of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. The show follows the doctors, nurses, and residents as they navigate the chaotic and emotionally charged environment of the emergency room. With a constant influx of patients and limited resources, the staff must work together to save lives and provide the best care possible.
Hawthorne is a TV show about Christina Hawthorne, a strong-willed nurse who is dedicated to caring for her patients. She faces various challenges in the hospital, as she deals with difficult patients, hospital policies, and personal relationships. Despite the obstacles, Christina remains determined to provide the best care possible.
Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.
In Valiant, a brave pigeon named Valiant joins the Royal Homing Pigeon Service during World War II to help deliver important messages to the troops. Along the way, he faces various challenges, including enemy falcons, psychological torture, and the dangers of war. With the help of his friends, Valiant must prove himself and save the day.
A young woman named Vera Brittain leaves her studies at Oxford University to become a war nurse during World War I. She experiences the hardships of war, loss, and the struggle for her own independence.
A comedy movie set in a hospital where a journalist goes undercover as a nurse, leading to hilarious misunderstandings and romantic entanglements.
Exiled is a movie that revolves around a group of friends who are exiled to Macau. They are faced with loyalty tests, violence, and a battle to survive. The story explores themes of friendship, honor, and the consequences of one's choices.
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
In the midst of the California gold rush, a group of prospectors encounter various comedic mishaps while searching for wealth.
Since You Went Away is a touching movie that tells the story of a mother and her daughters as they navigate life on the home front during World War II. Faced with challenges such as rationing, the war effort, and the absence of their loved ones who are in the military, they find strength in their relationships and learn the meaning of sacrifice.
Summer in Berlin is a drama/comedy film that follows the story of a single mother navigating through various challenges in the city of Berlin. The film explores themes of unemployment, isolation, and friendship as the protagonist tries to find her way in life. With a mix of humor and drama, Summer in Berlin showcases the ups and downs of everyday life in the city.
In the year 2012, on December 12th, a series of horrifying events occur as an evil cult performs a ritual sacrifice to bring about the end of the world. A woman gives birth to a killer baby while a group of survivors desperately try to stop the cult and save humanity. With gore, death, and ritual sacrifices, there are no survivors in this chilling tale of evil winning.
Mondo Cane is a documentary film that presents a collection of shocking and disturbing scenes from around the world. It delves into controversial subjects such as animal cruelty, amputees, exploitation, and cultural clashes. The film aims to shock and provoke the audience by showcasing bizarre and unsettling aspects of human behavior.
Spitfire is a drama film set in a rural community, where a young girl must navigate through various hardships, superstitions, and mob violence. The film explores themes of poverty, religion, and deception, as the girl struggles to find her place in this unforgiving environment.
This RKO-Pathe Screenliner short looks at the duties of the modern nurse. The story tracks the education of a student nurse as she works toward graduation and shows the earning of her cap during her student days, in retrospect. At the beginning, she wears the Student Nurse uniform dress and apron only, with no cap. She appears later in the movie as a more experienced Senior student with her cap already wearing a stripe. This was frequently done in the three year hospital programs to differentiate the Junior level students from the Seniors, more experienced and closer to Graduation. The capping ceremony illustrated shows the bare headed students receiving their plain white cap, and addressing it as something from her past that she will remember fondly.
The Shift is the story of one 12 hour night shift in the ER and the life and death decisions that have to be made. With the issue of euthanasia in the headlines this is a timely and compelling story.
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, a hypochondriac compulsively obsessed with avoiding sudden death. Their relationship moves through suspicion, fear and compassion to tenderness and love.