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The Crimson Field

★ 7.8 4K votes 2014–2014 1 season · 6 episodes Ended BBC One
War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10MedicalHospitals, medicine and doctors under pressure.This show: 8/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 8/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 7/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Hermione NorrisOona ChaplinRichard RankinMarianne OldhamAlice St. ClairSuranne Jones
Starring
Hermione NorrisOona ChaplinRichard RankinMarianne OldhamAlice St. ClairSuranne Jones
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"Wartime nursing drama that trades battles for bedsides"

Set in a British field hospital in France during World War I, this drama follows a trio of untrained volunteer nurses thrown into the chaos of wartime medicine alongside hardened military staff. It's a measured, character-driven show more interested in moral compromise, class friction and the quiet horror of triage than in battle spectacle. The pace is deliberate, closer to a hospital drama than a war epic, carried by strong performances and an unglamorous, muddy authenticity. It's affecting rather than thrilling, built on accumulating small tragedies instead of one big arc.

Watch it for

the understated performances that find quiet heroism in exhausted, morally compromised people.

Maybe skip if

you want battlefield action rather than slow-burn hospital-tent drama.

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All Seasons

Miniseries2014
8.090965h 51m
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.17.6
18257 min
2Episode #1.28.0
16459 min
3Episode #1.37.9
14459 min
4Episode #1.48.0
14359 min
5Episode #1.58.1
14158 min
6Episode #1.68.3
13559 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Hermione Norris Matron Grace Carter
Oona Chaplin Kitty Trevelyan
Richard Rankin Capt Thomas Gillan
Marianne Oldham Rosalie Berwick
Alice St. Clair Flora Marshall
Suranne Jones Sister Joan Livesey
Kevin Doyle Lt Col Roland Brett
Alex Wyndham Capt Miles Hesketh-Thorne
Jack Gordon Cpl Peter Foley
Jeremy Swift QMS Reggie Soper

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