# The forgotten frontier

The forgotten frontier was filmed by photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge to document the humanitarian work being done in Kentucky by her cousin, nurse Mary Breckinridge, and the other nurse-midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). The film shows nurse-midwives providing child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health and assisting doctors with emergency surgery for people living in underserved areas in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains. The film includes re-creations involving the actual patients, and depicts nurses traveling by horseback for miles through the mountains to help the community by delivering babies, inoculating children, and tending bullet wounds.

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 1930
- Runtime: 46 min
- By: Frontier Nursing Service, Inc
- Genres: Documentary, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024600522/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024600522?play=1)