Bramwell - The Complete First Season
List Price:
Our Price: $20.44
You Save: $19.54 (49%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: David Calder, Jemma Redgrave, Keeley Gainey, Kevin McMonagle, Ruth SheenBrand: CALDER,DAVID
Writer: Harriet Davison
Writer: Jonathan Rich
Writer: Lucy Gannon
Writer: Tim Whitby
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Mono; English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 54 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: SHANACHIE
Product features:
- Set in Victorian-era London, BRAMWELL is a British drama about a female doctor struggling to gain acceptance in a male dominated profession. Jemma Redgrave (DREAM DEMON) stars as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, while David Calder (THE KILLING KIND) plays her husband, who also works in the business. The entire first season of the show is collected here. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating:
Movie Reviews of Bramwell - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: fantastic Victorian era drama...
Summary: 5 Stars
I love to search through "Period Piece" DVD's on Amazon as I will invariably find many great ones, especially from the UK, that I've never heard of. One I picked up a year or so ago, that we finally got around to viewing, is Bramwell, Series 1.
Bramwell is the story of Eleanor Bramwell, one of the first (though fictional) female Doctors in Victorian England. Bramwell follows Eleanor's trials, tribulations and surprisingly "realistically grusome" medical cases, as well as her acceptance or nonacceptance in the "man's world" of Victorian era Medicine. The costuming and sets are accurate and to die for. Eleanor's "Gibson Girl" leg o mutton blouses and frocks are drool-worthy :)
The show stars the beautiful Jemma Redgrave (yes, THAT Redgrave family-she is the daughter of Corin Redgrave and niece of Vanessa/Lynn Redgrave) and the incomparable Ruth Sheen who is one of the best Veteran UK Character actors around as Nurse Carr.
The show ran 4 seasons and I eagerly look forward to renting and viewing seasons 2-4 :) Recommended-5 stars.
PS-seeing the other reviews here-yes, my edition did not have the eighth episode on it. I agree with the other reviewers-I'm highly disappointed in the company who manufactured the DVD (they'd get zero stars) the five stars is for the show itself.
Summary of Bramwell - The Complete First Season
Dr. Eleanor Bramwell struggles against society's odds to become a leading female surgeon in 1895 London.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 9-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
From PBS?s Masterpiece Theatre, this 1995 miniseries chronicles the professional and personal challenges of a determined female physician in late 19th century England. With extraordinary depth and vitality, Jemma Redgrave plays Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, an ambitious doctor intent on becoming a surgeon who struggles to make her mark in the medical world while mocked by her male counterparts. In the season opener, Eleanor works at East London hospital under the patronizing tutelage of Sir Herbert Hamilton until she no longer can tolerate his barbaric medical practices?especially toward women. Against the wishes of her protective father (David Calder), Eleanor strikes out on her own to run the charitable Thrift Infirmary in London?s impoverished East End, thanks to the generosity of a widowed patroness, Lady Cora Peters. Subsequent dramas unfold, with each of the seven episodes building upon the last, as Eleanor grapples with issues of class, race, poverty-induced crime, family expectations, and the politics of patronage. In one story, Eleanor?s upper-crust outlook gets a jolt when she discovers that Lady Cora?s pregnant laundry maid is married to a black man; in another, a belligerent patient under her care attempts a sexual assault. This well-written and skillfully acted period drama provides a provocative glimpse at turn-of-the-century women?s rights as well as social commentary on the culture of Victorian England. Redgrave gives an intelligent performance, developing her character at many levels, as a deeply compassionate, headstrong, flawed individual who remains true to her convictions. The season ends with the possibility of a budding romance between Eleanor and one of her colleagues. Not suitable for young children due to mature themes. --Lynn Gibson
Similar DVD Movies
Garrow's Law: Series 2Acorn; Release date: 2011-08-02; DVD
Best price: $25.55
Price in other shops:
Masterpiece Theatre - The CazaletsWgbh Wholesale; Release date: 2004-11-23; DVD
Best price: $20.83
Price in other shops:
Snoop Sisters Complete SeriesRelease date: 2011-06-14; DVD
Best price: $39.99
Price in other shops:
Lark Rise to Candleford: Season FourWHV; Release date: 2011-04-05; DVD
Best price: $17.44
Price in other shops:
Upstairs DownstairsWHV; Release date: 2011-04-26; DVD
Best price: $17.99
Price in other shops:
Jemma Redgrave - Bramwell Series 4 (2 DVD Set)Koch International; Release date: 2004-10-05; DVD
Best price: $14.98
Price in other shops:
Bramwell: The Complete Third SeasonKoch International; Release date: 2008-01-08; DVD
Best price: $35.14
Price in other shops:
Bramwell Season 2Koch International; Release date: 2007-08-14; DVD
Best price: $25.63
Price in other shops:
Berkeley Square - The Complete SeriesPBS; Release date: 2011-03-22; DVD
Best price: $26.04
Price in other shops:
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 2 (Original U.K. Unedited Edition)PBS; Release date: 2012-02-07; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops: