Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains

Chelsea Gorham

2021•57 min.•

United States of America

Explore the life of Mary Breckinridge and her efforts founding the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives traveled by horseback to provide healthcare to those living in a remote, mountainous region of Kentucky.

History
Documentary

Cast

MB
Mary Breckinridge
Self (in Archival Footage)
MBG
Melanie Beals Goan
SS
Susan Stone
CC
Carlyle Carter
JE
Joycelyn Elders
ER
Ellen Ross
JBD
Julia Breckinridge Davis

Crew

CG
Chelsea Gorham
Writing
MG
Matt Grimm
Production
CG
Chelsea Gorham
Directing