Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains (movie)

Name: Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains
Director: Chelsea Gorham
Released: 2021-9-11
Cast: Mary Breckinridge, Melanie Beals Goan, Susan Stone, Carlyle Carter, Joycelyn Elders

Production country: United States of America
Producer: Chelsea Gorham
Production companies: KET, Kentucky Educational Television
Genre: History, Documentary
Release date: 10/11/2021
Run time: 57 min.

Movie description

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.

Actors

Mary Breckinridge

Role(s): Self (in Archival Footage)

Melanie Beals Goan

Susan Stone

Carlyle Carter

Joycelyn Elders