Nurses On The Frontline follows nurses giving battlefield treatment to civilians caught up in a 60 year old conflict in the mountains of Eastern Burma.

Nurses On The Front Line returns with 2 new episodes on nurses giving battlefield treatment to civilians caught up in a 60 year old conflict in the mountains of Eastern Burma are the subject of two new installments. Since Independence the Karen ethnic minority numbering some 2 million have been in open conflict with the military government of Burma. Caught up in the conflict between the resistant fighters and the Burma infantry are the villagers. Hundreds of thousands have been forced into exile. Those that remain live in isolated jungle communities, plagued by landmines and malaria. Their main source of medical care is provided by the Free Burma Rangers, a band of volunteer aid workers and medics funded largely by US Christian groups. Drawing on footage shot over four years, our filmmakers tell the story of four Karen nurses on Rangers’ missions as they dodge the Burmese army and ubiquitous land-mines to deliver basic health care to a frightened people always on the move. The result is a rare and insight into one of the world’s longest and least reported ethnic conflicts.
DVD, 48 mins