Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first complete artificial heart implant in 1982 and lived on for three post-operative months. NOVA investigates the risk, costs and controversies surrounding the development of the artificial heart.

NOVA Season 11 Episodes...

• s11e01 - Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales
• s11e02 - The Artificial Heart
• s11e03 - Talking Turtle
• s11e04 - Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
• s11e05 - To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• s11e06 - A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds
• s11e07 - A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery
• s11e08 - Captives of Care
• s11e09 - Twenty-Five Years in Space
• s11e10 - Nuclear Strategy for Beginners
• s11e11 - The Climate Crisis
• s11e12 - Eyes Over China
• s11e13 - Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence
• s11e14 - The Case of ESP
• s11e15 - Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier
• s11e16 - China's Only Child
• s11e17 - Will I Walk Again?
• s11e18 - Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings
• s11e19 - Down on the Farm
• s11e20 - Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care
• s11e21 - The World According to Weisskopf

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.