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Summary:

What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine.

Contributors:

Marsh, Henry, 1950-

Kurilets, Igor

Smith, Geoffrey , director

Cave, Nick, 1957- , composer

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Bungalow Town Productions Ltd.

British Broadcasting Corporation

Independent Television Service

EyeLine Films

BBC Storyville (Firm)

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Closed-captioned.
In English.

Related Works:

POV (Television program)

Subjects:

Marsh, Henry, 1950-

Neurosurgeons — Great Britain

Physician and patient

Missions, Medical — Ukraine

Neurosurgeons

Missions, Medical

Great Britain

Ukraine

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo, NTSC.

Performers:

Featuring Henry Marsh and Igor Kurilets.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Graham Day; music, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis; editor, Kathy O'Shea.

General Notes:

Originally broadcast onSept. 8, 2009 as a segment of the television program, POV.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

ENG 2009 DVD

ISBNs:

9781608831197
1608831191

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 841887011228
Publisher Number, PBS: AMD62210

OCLC Numbers:

456293451