Florence Nightingale | |
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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
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Production company | British & Colonial Kinematograph Company |
Distributed by | Ideal Films |
Release date | March 1915 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Florence Nightingale is a 1915 British silent historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves and A. V. Bramble.[1] The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56). The film was based on Edward Tyas Cook's biography of Nightingale.