Mercy Street

About 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 o…

Mercy Street is a drama series made for PBS. Mary Elizabeth Winstead leads the cast as Mary Phinney, McKinley Belcher III as Samuel Diggs, Suzanne Bertish as Matron Brannan, and AnnaSophia Robb as Alice Green.

Its 2 seasons and 12 episodes were broadcast from January 2016 to March 2017. That is around 6 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under nurse, american civil war, period drama, and historical drama. In the United States it streams on PBS, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, and Thirteen.

Scarlet Heart: Ryeo, Versailles, and Moon River make useful companions to Mercy Street, all filed under historical fiction.