Call the Midwife: Season 1-5 (BBC/DVD)

 

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

 

 

Actors: Jessica Raine, Stephen McGann, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris

Directors: Roger Goldby, Philippa Lowthorpe, Jamie Payne

Format: Multiple Formats, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled

Language: English (Stereo)

Subtitles: English

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Number of discs: 14

Rated:NR Not Rated 

Studio: BBC Home Entertainment

DVD Release Date: 2012-2016