episodes
- 1. Einstein Revealed This two-hour program chronicles Albert Einstein's life and scientific achievements from his birth in 1879 to his death in 1955. The first hour follows Einstein in his quest to understand the nature o...
- 2. Lost City of Arabia Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar.
- 3. Three Men and a Balloon One of the final aeronautics challenges left in the world today does not involve the use of a plane, a rocket, or even an engine. No one has yet been able to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon. Any...
- 4. Secrets of Making Money With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters.
- 5. Top Gun Over Moscow Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game?
- 6. Shark Attack Sharks are known as the "perfect predators," but sometimes they slip up and attack the wrong prey—people.
- 7. Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey (1) NOVA explores the links between our individual development and the evolution of life itself.
- 8. Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World (2) This program reveals some of the billions of practically invisible organisms that live on, in, and around us.
- 9. Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets (3)
- 10. Cracking the Ice Age Did the crash of continents that produced the Himalayan Mountains also trigger the Ice Age?
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Kaboom!
An in-depth and heart stopping look at the ultimate chemical reaction - the explosion. Using high speed photography and dramatic reconstruction, the film will chart the tarnished history of explosives...
- 12. Titanic's Lost Sister In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins,...
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Secrets Of Lost Empires (1): Pyramid
In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins,...
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Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1)
A distinctive feature of this stone site are the trilithons, which consist of two upright stones topped by a horizontal lintel stone. In this program, the NOVA team considers how to transport and rais...
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Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2)
Even without such technological advances as wheels, arches, draft animals, iron tools, or a system of writing, the Inca—utilizing a tradition of shared labor—achieved a number of engineering feats. Th...
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Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3)
Pharaohs who built magnificent temples to preserve their names for eternity often graced temple gates with pairs of obelisks, four-sided shafts of granite that taper gently upward until the sides meet...
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Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4)
Citizens of Rome came to the Colosseum to behold free entertainment that usually came in the form of violent war games and bloody battles between humans and animals. This structure's most impressive f...
- 18. Hunt for Alien Worlds Astronomers discover planets beyond our solar system. But is there life on them?
- 19. Curse of T.rex How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones?
- 20. Cut to the Heart Ever since World War II, physicians have struggled to find ways to treat heart failure, the biggest killer in the modern world.
- 21. Kingdom of the Seahorse The world's leading sea horse biologist journeys to Australia and the Philippines to explore the secret lives of these extraordinary fish.