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Call the Midwife: Season 1 [Blu-ray]

Jessica Raine (Actor), Stephen McGann (Actor), Various (Director) Rated:
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Contributor Miranda Hart, Laura Main, Jessica Raine, Bryony Hannah, Helen George, Ben Caplan, Pam Ferris, Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter, Various, Stephen McGann See more
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Call the Midwife: Season One (BBC/Blu-ray)

A moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the Fifties, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of midwives who visit expectant mothers, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. Here, the streets teem with children and with just one eight-bed maternity ward to serve the whole district; most deliveries take place at home. Following Jenny as she travels through the streets to meet her patients - like Conchita, who is on her 25th pregnancy and Mary, a prostitute and pregnant at just 15 - Call the Midwife offers a fascinating insight into a community on the brink of huge social change.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 26193166
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, Subtitled, Full Screen, NTSC, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 5 hours and 55 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jessica Raine, Stephen McGann, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter, Bryony Hannah
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ BBC Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0093I5QG8
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
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Women have A Great Blessing in Call the Midwife
I watched 33 episodes of Midwife. I felt so awesome to be a woman. It was factual and extremely addicting. The bond between these women carries through the wonders of birth and the pain of labor. Trully shares the very core of womenhood. I wish everyone would see this incredible story. AUTHOR of The Yellow Cake Genie, A True Story Of A Uranium Miner And His Family. Gloria Iturralde
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Klug im Nord Karolina
5.0 out of 5 stars now THAT'S entertainment
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024
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a quirky funny and intense turn of the century period England midwife adventure in patient care and family interactions
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Anastasia McPherson
5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Stirring - More Than Entertainment
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013
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Jennifer's Worth's memoir of being a young midwife in the poverty stricken East End of London in the fifties, here turned into a series for the BBC is genuinely moving and inspiring and makes the viewer think about many things - what it means to be a good person, how best to help others, why we as humans visit so much devastation upon each other. The shadow of the Workhouse hangs over this series and that shadow is both edifying and terrifying.

The plots deal with many real life issues, terrible living conditions, the forgotten poor and elderly, babies taken from their mothers for adoption without consent or care for the mother or the child, but most affecting of all is the Workhouse. An institution I thought was finished in Dicken's time but that in fact covers almost six hundred years of history. In the most affecting story, the cleaner for the nunnery and her brother were taken to the workhouse when the brother was seven and the sister was barely a toddler. There they were separated. The brother grew up and was released but refused to stop looking for his sister and once he found her, working until he could pay for her release. The two lived together for the rest of their lives, but Frank, is now diagnosed with cancer. How can these two possibly live without each other? Their happiness in each other and in simple pleasures along with the way the workhouse broke them of the ability to have a normal life will affect anyone with a heart.

Call the Midwife doesn't lecture, but I had to look up the history of the Workhouse and found that some form of Workhouse as punishment for the poor was extant in England from 1388 as a response to the depredations of the Black Death until 1948. Yes, you read that right, the Workhouse in England is still within living memory. That should sober us here in America when we are considering doing away with programs that help the poor and where our attitude has become punitive. Surely we can find a way to do better with many things in life, but punishing the disadvantaged can't be right for anyone. A look at the results shows that.

Perhaps because they are drawn from life, the characters are all amazingly well drawn. The young midwives each have a distinct personality, perhaps most memorably, the overly large, clumsy aristocrat who has fled her family's disappointment in her physical failings, called Chummy. Nor is this a saccharine call to be a good person. The people in these stories are good in the way that people actually are good in that they struggle with their faults, their prejudices and the stresses of the day to try and be kind to one another. When they manage this, as when we do, it is a triumph and that is why this is inspiring. The nuns aren't cut out religious, they are real women who have given their lives to their beliefs and who do better some days than others.

I cannot say enough about this wonderful series. I really did find it a soul stirring inspiration.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great show
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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The first season of Englands birth of national healthcare (pun intended). The personal stories of the young women starting this is riveting.
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Sharon Upchurch
5.0 out of 5 stars Defining a true calling
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2012
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This series is addictive. It is a series about a group of young women and their older female mentors who have found a true calling. They have endless doubts about their ability to complete the tasks but they still find the courage to do what needs to be done. Call the Midwife resonates with me for several reasons. My grandmother did similar public health nursing work in a rural area of Illinois just before WWI. She graduated from Nursing School in 1909 and was immediately sent out to do public health work in an under-served area. Her work involved being the primary health care for those residents, including delivering babies and setting broken bones. So, this series intrigued me when I first heard about it. I have watched all the episodes so far and it lives up to its promise. The situations are realistic about a time when England was just beginning to emerge from rationing and the National Health Service had begun to make a real difference in the lives of the poorest Britains. There is the sense that poverty in 1957 was the same today in many ways but there are also cultural differences. One thing I noticed was that most of the babies are born to married parents. The parents were mostly working poor. The men mostly had jobs and the women were stay-at-home wives and mothers even though the family struggled. Children played the same kinds of games that most children played except they played in the streets. The young nurses are true to their calling and to the time in which they lived. Women's Liberation was a long way off. Like my grandmother, young nurses (unmarried women) couldn't live on their own without chaperones. These nurses are essentially living in a convent. My grandmother also lived in an all-female dormitory during nursing school and when she came back to work in the hospital as a widow during the Depression. She had to send her two young sons to live with her mother on the family farm because she wasn't allowed to bring them with her. The sequestration of professional women like nurses was an injustice to them and denied the existence of personal integrity. I love the period music in the show. The music sets a mood and seems to be almost a character in the drama. The series is based on the memoirs of the main character, a young woman just qualified sent to work in London's East End. Her older self is the narrator at the beginning and the end of each episode. This lends a sense of authenticity and realism to the stories. I enthusiastically recommend this series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks!
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great series - you will fall in love
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
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When my good friends suggested this show - I was not enthused. But - it is absolutely darling - you will fall in love with each of the characters and be anxious to watch night after night.

One of those understated shows which has so much character and care - you will be a better person for watching this.
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Yvon
5.0 out of 5 stars Good price, fast delivery
Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2024
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Edna
5.0 out of 5 stars Call the Midwife - Series 1 DVD
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2024
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I love it, I love watching Call the Midwife
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Brig. FB Gama Rose Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid Acting Must Buy
Reviewed in India on April 9, 2020
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Call the Midwife is a BBC serial in six parts based on Jennifer Worth's Book "Call the Midwife" which describes life in the 1950's in a clinic for midwives run by the Nuns. Excellent cast and acting and a very capable rendition of the book bring to life the harsh reality of a nurse's life in terrible health workers conditions when most children were born at home. Excellent humour and direction. Must buy
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Asphodelia
5.0 out of 5 stars le charme des années 50...
Reviewed in France on January 16, 2018
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...auquel je ne puis résister ! Bien sûr, cela se passe dans l'East-End de Londres après guerre, quartier pauvre et un peu sordide mais cette série nous plonge au cœur de familles plus ou moins démunies -sur plusieurs plans, et le travail des sages-femmes auprès des difficultés voire ignorance de certaines femmes dans ces milieux. Le tout décrit avec un réalisme décent que le charme de ces jeunes filles fait allègrement passer. On partage un peu leurs aventures, leurs doutes et leurs émotions; j'adore !
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sorbiekatze
5.0 out of 5 stars Ich habe diese Serie bestellt...
Reviewed in Germany on November 23, 2015
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... weil ich von einer Bekannten, die sie im Fernsehen gesehen hat und die sehr begeistert war, darauf aufmerksam gemacht wurde. Und ich muss sagen, dass sie Recht hatte: die einzelnen Personen wachsen einen beim Zusehen ans Herz. Zum Inhalt:
Die überaus hübsche Schwester Jenny Lee, kommt nach ihrer Ausbildung zur Hebamme ins "Nonnatus House" (das sie irrtümlich für eine Privatklinik hält) und ahnt nicht, dass sie ihren Dienst in einem Arbeiter- und Armenviertel Londons - Poplar, einem Distrikt des East End - verrichten wird.
Sie ist anfänglich auf diese Situation überhaupt nicht vorbereitet und hat dementsprechende Probleme, sich einzufinden. Aber sie ist nicht allein: die große, etwas unbeholfene, aber ungeheuer liebenswerte und kompetente Schwester Chummy (ganz klar meine Favoritin!) sowie die anderen jungen Hebammen Trixie und Cynthia werden zu guten Freundinnen für Jenny. Gemeinsam nehmen sie den Kampf gegen Armut, mangelnde Hygiene, fehlendes Wissen der Bewohner über Erhaltung der Gesundheit... auf. Sie unterstützen die Frauen und ihre Familien in ihren schwierigen Lagen, wo immer sie können. Dies ganz ohne die heute übliche Gerätemedizin, dafür mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen und Menschlichkeit.
Ja - und dann sind da noch die Nonnen, die das Nonnatus House betreiben. Schwester Monica Joan, bei der man nie so ganz genau weiß, ob sie dement oder einfach nur exzentrisch ist (ihre "philosophischen" Bemerkungen, die sie immer wieder in Unterhaltungen einfließen lässt, haben mich so manches Mal sehr erheitert), die resolute Schwester Evangelina ( deren pragmatische Sichtweise ebenfalls großartig und oft so gar nicht "nonnenhaft / himmlisch" sondern sehr weltlich und bodenständig ist) sowie die gütigen Schwestern Julienne und Bernadette.Die geistlichen Schwestern stehen auch mitten im Leben und werden täglich mit den Härten des Lebens, wie sie in einem Viertel wie dem East End am Ende der 50er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts (und ja leider auch heute noch, in den Elendsviertel dieser Welt) vorkamen (vorkommen), konfrontiert. Sie stellen sich diesen oft sehr grenzwertigen Situationen auch ohne Wenn und Aber, und das finde ich äußerst bemerkenswert. Die Geschichten sind nicht "geschönt" wie so viele Krankenhausserien, sie gehen leider nicht immer gut aus, sondern spiegeln den Alltag der damaligen Zeit ziemlich realistisch wider. Die einzelnen Episoden ( die in sich abgeschlossen sind) sind wie das Leben: manchmal lustig, manchmal tragisch, manchmal ist man hin- und hergerissen, ob man lachen oder weinen soll.
Das Thema "Schwangerschaft und Geburt" beschäftigt natürlich besonders Frauen, ich glaube aber, dass auch Männer von dieser Serie begeistert sein werden.
Was mir auch aufgefallen ist: der Arzt in der Serie - Dr. Turner - respektiert die Arbeit der Hebammen restlos und überlässt ihnen die Leitung der Geburten. Er greift nur in absoluten medizinischen Notsituationen ein - also keine Spur von "Halbgott in Weiß". Das gefällt mir ebenfalls sehr gut.
Die SchauspielerInnen liefern großartige Leistungen ab und setzen die Tagebücher von Jennifer Worth gelungen um. Kostüme, Musik und Kulissen entsprechen der damaligen Zeit. Man hat sich bei der BBC mit dieser Serie große Mühe gegeben und das Ergebnis kann sich wirklich sehen lassen.
Ich gebe hier eine absolute Kaufempfehlung ab!
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