Mercy Street
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: nurse, historical fiction, period drama, union soldier, confederate soldier, american civil war, historical drama
- Cast: Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, McKinley Belcher III, Hannah James, Tara Summers, Norbert Leo Butz