A Midwife’s Tale (1998)
To understand 18th century America through a woman’s eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard’s massive but cryptic diary.
Genre: Docudrama, tv movie
Director: Richard P. Rogers
Starring: Kaiulani Lee, Andrew Elvis Miller, J. Smith Cameron
Runtime: 89 minutes
ReelRank score: 155 out of 200, from 1 rating.
Grade: D+
Reviews
- A Midwife’s Tale by oxfordcomma: While this is not cinema by any means, it’s a decent docudrama. I recently read The Frozen River and was interested to learn that the book protagonist was a real person. What I found really…