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| Nova dispels the myth that a doctor's life is glamorous in its groundbreaking program Nova: Survivor MD. In 1987, the PBS producer picked seven Harvard medical students on which to focus its attention. The first program documented the freshman year of higher training. Each additional episode showed another year gone by and stepped up frustrations and achievements. Graduation, internships, and residency all followed with Nova in tow. The fourth installment takes a closer look at the beginning doctors' adjustment to a rigorous lifestyle. They have finally reached the culmination of ten years of education and the cameras are rolling. Viewers are taken into the homes of these doctors and given unprecedented emergency room access. There are surprise endings as well. While most of the candidates followed through on dreams to heal, while some did not. Nova shows the dramatic real-life wrap-up to an intensive documentary process. ~ Sarah Ing, Rovi | |
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Lennart Nilsson, the famed photographer who brought us the spectacular... In this television documentary, viewers get to see forensic experts test... Nova visits Russia for Nova: Top Gun Over Moscow, a thorough look at the... This television documentary investigates the worldwide issue of land mines.... Why were the U.S. paper currency bills redesigned? Nova explains in Nova:... Nova goes to Hollywood for an IMAX look into the magical world of technical... Nova Video Library: B-29 Frozen in Time follows Darryl Greenamyer and his... To be the first -- that has always been a challenge to the adventurer, and... This television documentary investigates the encounters with UFOs and alien... Narrated by F. Murray Abraham, Nova: Einstein Revealed is a 120-minute... Nova explores the state-of-the-art techniques being used by scientific... One of the most frightening elements of natural disasters is that more... This television documentary gives a complete view of the biggest flood in... Nova: Shark Attack! is an animal behavior documentary that features two of... Behold the amazing power of nature in this Nova program. This video... Ebola. Possibly the most terrifying virus to ever exist. In 1995 the lethal... For hundreds of years, the Yanomami people have led an isolated existence... Nova goes where no PBS program has gone before with its in-depth look at... Nova documents the mathematical feat of the century with the completion of... This video is part of a series of programs released by the award-winning... In 1997, three teams try to accomplish one of the last great aeronautical... This television show follows the race to fly faster than the speed of... Who built the enigmatic Stonehenge and for what purpose? Explore the... Nova: Bomb Squad takes a critical look at the Felix Bomb Squad. These men... An explosion only requires three parts: ignition, fuel and oxygen. With... This television documentary is one in a four-part series that tests... This television documentary is one in a four-part series that tests... This television documentary is one in a four-part series that tests... This 90-minute television documentary looks at the ancient Egyptians... The White Star Line owned three ships, one was the Titanic. This Nova film... In Nova: Super Bridge, Nova checks out the rebuilding of the old Clark... Nova Video Library: Avalanche! takes a look at avalanches from several... Scientists have been puzzled by the behavior of young pilot whales who have... This video investigates the case of the million-dollar T. Rex fossil... This television documentary shows a technique aimed at countering the... This television documentary takes a look at techniques used to assess and... A male fish who becomes pregnant and gives birth? Witness the unbelievable... Before the 15th century, a series of earthquakes caused the city of... England came under close scrutiny when a hair-raising new illness was... This edition of the PBS science show Nova explores the mysteries of the... During the Cold War, there was an ongoing race between the West and the... Does it seem warmer each year? Or is it actually getting colder? While the... We may never know what drives people to risk life and limb tackling the... This television documentary shows the creatures that come out when the sun... Nova Video Library: Animal Hospital spent a year following veterinary... Who were the first people to invent a writing system? Was it the Maya, who... This television documentary is concerned with a 2,400-year-old frozen woman... Nova accompanies archaeologists on a historic mission as they explore the... The aging Russian space station Mir has been plagued by a series of... This television documentary investigates mummies found in the Takla Makan... This documentary follows the attempts of scientists to find a theory that... Pearls have long been coveted for their lustrous beauty and the rarity of a... This television documentary follows the search for the key to navigating... A team of Nova scientists plus a brave group of candid men and their... The legendary volcano Vesuvius that buried the entire city of Pompeii 2000... This television documentary follows researcher Johan Reinhard and his team... Dr. O.H. Frazier first believed that by 1980, there would be 100,000 people... Previously relegated to the realm of science fiction novels, time travel... The Black-Scholes formula of economics promised to revolutionize Wall... Voyage of Doom explores the shipwreck that many have called the most... Nova travels to the home of Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu, in this... Nova program Decoding Nazi Secrets is the story of Churchill's secret... Learn about the inevitable architectural demise of the Leaning Tower of... With modern methods and precise science, Nova gets scientific to catch a... This documentary follows the development of safety devices designed to help... 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The International Space Station proves that man's quest to live in space is... The Vikings are haunted by a bitter reputation as vicious giants and... In this Nova film, anthropologist and Jewish scholar Tudor Parfitt explores... In this two-hour special, Nova follows a team of divers down to the ocean... Nova reveals one of Japan's most precious resources in this video trip to... Nova journeys back to a decisive moment in the War Between the States -- a... This Nova program grapples with the truly big questions of science -- what... One of the most hotly debated subjects of modern politics is the growing... Easter Island is home to 1,000 human sculptures weighing approximately 80... Discover the intrigue and fascinating experience of medieval battlefields... Immerse yourself in the fascinating culture of Roman Bathhouses. Bathhouses... Two hundred million years ago, as the supercontinent of Pangea broke up, a... Over 900 years ago, a technologically advanced society in China was... Honoring the Egyptian Gods has never been a slight task. Can you imagine... There is little glamour and plenty of hard work in the first years of... On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out to achieve the... The much-anticipated sequencing of the human genome made global headlines... Nova dispels the myth that a doctor's life is glamorous in its... This program is part of a series from the popular PBS science show NOVA.... How can one baby have five parents? This NOVA series explains that and much... Some men will go to remarkable lengths to impress women, and this... This program is part of a series from the popular PBS science show NOVA.... The decades-long scientific quest to develop a less hazardous cigarette is... Nova gained an exclusive when it secured the story rights to the life of... The disappearance of the Mayan nation has captivated archaeologists for... When some of the greatest military minds of World War II were imprisoned in... Originally an episode of the PBS television series Nova, this video... Lennart Nilsson is an experimental photographer from Sweden who became... There is a tree in California whose venerable age has earned it the name of... This program is part of a series from the popular PBS science show NOVA.... This program is part of a series from the popular PBS science show NOVA.... Made as the small-screen half of a two-part WGBH series on the adventures... A scientist discovers a innovative method for forecasting volcano eruptions... Galileo Galilei was one of the first truly revolutionary men of science;... An episode of the science series Nova, Mysterious Life of Caves takes the... This volume of the PBS series NOVA investigates the past, present, and... Killer Disease on Campus is a documentary about the deadly illness known as... Originally broadcast on PBS, NOVA: Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies attempts to... In the summer of 2000, brush and forest fires in America raged as never... Death stars are stars several billion times brighter than the sun, and so... Fireworks have long been one of the world's favorite ways to celebrate a... Among the many shocking images burned into America's collective... The remote-controlled spy jet code-named Predator is the focus of this... This PBS program documents the years preceding the completion of the Wright... NOVA accompanies geologists Volker Lorenz and Kevin Docherty throughout... The mystery of one of the history's most notorious aviators is explored in... The fierce competition between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin is the subject of... In this program that originally aired mere hours after the Spirit -... It is now conventional wisdom that biologist/crystallographer Rosalind... NOVA: The Elegant Universe is a three-hour miniseries about the string... The federal government devotes extensive time, effort, and money to the... In this episode of NOVA, Conrad Anker leads an expedition to climb the... When the bombs start falling and the war machines start rolling, the sheer... This documentary follows meteorologists as they face the danger of "going... From the science series NOVA comes the documentary Dogs and More Dogs. Emmy... The NOVA documentary Descent into the Ice takes a look at the Mer de Glace,... Originally airing on PBS, this episode of NOVA details the events following... This documentary takes a look at a number of 2000 year old artifacts found... It was undoubtedly the most ingenious and brilliant act of self-liberation... NOVA reconstructs and dissects a decades-old unsolved mystery in this... After a pair of near-disastrous incidents with the Space Shuttle, all eyes... Saving the National Treasures documents the care and restoration of... This episode of the documentary series NOVA, "The Viking Deception,"... In the decades since it first arrived on television, PBS's hugely popular... In Volcano Under the City, NOVA researchers take a sojourn to Mt.... This film examines the outbreak of Typhoid Fever that sacked the posh... NOVA: Hurricane Katrina - The Storm That Drowned a City analyzes how... It was a little-known episode of WWII that has nonetheless gained notoriety... Not so far back, an iconoclastic geologist began theorizing - in the face... NOVA: The Perfect Corpse consists of scientists figuring out crucial facts... The prized route between the Atlantic and Pacific so desperately searched... As originally screened on the Boston PBS affiliate WGBH, the... Filmmaker Mary Olive Smith addresses the troubling topic of obstetric... Discover what it takes to become a true member of the medical tribe as the... Approximately 13,000 years after the mighty mammoth and 35 other groups of... The apparent acceleration in the melting of glaciers and ice sheets is... Join the adventure-seekers at NOVA as they seek the answers to a mystery... This installment of NOVA examines the WWII Allied initiative to locate Nazi... This installment of NOVA examines a 1943 Allied raid that employed a... Experts build and test two replicas of ancient Egyptian chariots to learn... Satellite data is transformed into visual sequences that detail the... | |
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