Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Forgotten Frontier is a 1931 documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.