Overview

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.

Cast

Jaclyn Smith

Florence Nightingale

Claire Bloom

Fanny Nightingale

Timothy Dalton

Richard Milnes

Timothy West

William Russell

Peter McEnery

Sidney Herbert

Stephan Chase

Dr. Sutherland

Jeremy Brett

William Nightingale

Jeremy Child

Dr. Hall

Brian Cox

Dr. McGregor

Lesley Dunlop

Joanne

Michael Elwyn

Dr. Menzies

Julian Fellowes

Charles Bracebrige