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本片向观众们介绍了精英军校是如何选拔和锻炼完成各种特殊任务的军人的。 SURVIVING THE CUT follows the best of the best the US military has to offer as they fight for special operations most elite status. From the producers of Discovery Channels hit special TWO WEEKS IN HELL, each episode goes to hell and back as select candidates are pushed to the brink to weed out the weak. This series reveals how elite schools select and shape human weapons to be used in the most classified military operations in the world. While the tactics and technology provide an impressive backdrop, the focus is on the candidates constant struggle to overcome relentless psychological and physical obstacles. Source: The Discovery Channel
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Nichelle Nichols daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nations best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.
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Documentary series going beyond the theatre doors of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limits.? Every Second Counts? Surgeons have just minutes to perform life-saving emergency trauma operations.? Getting Better? A surgeon removes a woman’s oesophagus and uses her own stomach to replace it.? A New Beginning?? At Birmingham Children’s Hospital, two children undergo life-changing surgical procedures.? A Risk Worth Taking?? Surgeons carry out Queen Elizabeth Hospitals largest ever removal of excess tissue.? Pushing The Boundaries? A facial surgeon ventures into uncharted territory to operate on a patient’s rare disease.? One False Move? The series returns with brain surgery on a patient who is awake and a risky aorta repair.
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Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the English Reformation, the attack of the Spanish Armada and Queen Annes forgotten legacy.
