Ann and Jeanette Petrie's documentary profile of the founder and head of the Missionaries of Charity. It manages to be inspiring while being not in the least inspired, and being more than a little lucky in happening to be present at the bedside of a spastic Lebanese child when Mother Teresa sets about to soothe him. It owes its impact to the physical as much as the spiritual quality of its subject, a forward-bent, smilingly wrinkled old woman who started out picking up just one of "the poorest of the poor" from the streets of Calcutta, and by her current reckoning has now picked up 42,000 of them. Narrated by Richard Attenborough. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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