American Experience
Season 10 Episode 3 - A Midwife's Tale
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
Chronicling the efforts of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to gather facts about early American life through the diaries of Maine resident and midwife Martha Ballard (1735?-1812). Included: dramatizations of some of the passages; and the use of town documents to supplement some of Ballard's accounts.
Episodes in Season 10
1
Truman (1): An Accident of Democracy
55 min
2
Truman (2): The Moon, the Stars and All the Planets
55 min
3
A Midwife's Tale
55 min
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4
Mr. Miami Beach
55 min
5
Influenza 1918
55 min
6
Reagan (1): Lifeguard
115 min
7
Reagan (2): An American Crusade
55 min
8
Surviving the Dust Bowl
55 min
9
Riding the Rails
55 min
