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Nurse Edith Cavell Desert Island Films
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 34 min., 42 sec)) sound
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Desert Island Films, [1939]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- System requirements: FOD playback platform
- video file
- Summary:
- British nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith and a group of sympathizers devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans. Nominated for an Academy Award
- Contents:
- Nurse Edith Cavell (34:42);
- Notes:
- Originally released by Desert Island Films, 1939
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 10, 2019
- Title from distributor's description
- OCLC:
- 1127920395
- Publisher Number:
- 189461 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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