Nova

Season 6 Episode 19: Blindness: Five Points of Views

Dec 18, 1979 TV-PG 55m 8.7

For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people struggling to save their threatened vision using drugs, surgery, counseling and determination.

Nova background

Season 6 Episodes:

Episode 1 Black Tide

1. Black Tide

Aired: Jan 4, 1979

On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertank...

Episode 3 A World of Difference

3. A World of Difference

Aired: Jan 18, 1979

In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter,...

Episode 9 Einstein

9. Einstein

Aired: Mar 15, 1979

One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most ...

Episode 10 The Keys of Paradise

10. The Keys of Paradise

Aired: Mar 29, 1979

Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a pl...

Episode 13 Sweet Solutions

13. Sweet Solutions

Aired: Oct 16, 1979

NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political ...

Episode 14 Race for the Gold

14. Race for the Gold

Aired: Oct 30, 1979

At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted ...


Info about Nova

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary