episodes
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
In 1714, following a maritime disaster, British Parliament offers £20,000 for the first reliable method of determining longitude on a ship at sea. It's known that longitude can be found by comparing a...
- 2. Chasing El Nino A massive planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportions to disrupt a machine this large and powerful, a juggernaut...
- 3. Terror In Space Experience the harrowing and life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station through the eyes of the Russian and American astronauts who lived through them. Feel the heat from the fire th...
- 4. Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception.
- 5. Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today.
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Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven (1)
This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence has emerged of sacrifice to the mountain gods, whose existen...
- 7. Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden (2) The Siberian Ice Maiden, discovered in the Pastures of Heaven, on the high Steppes, is believed to have been a shamaness of the lost Pazyryk culture. She had been mummified and then frozen by freak cl...
- 8. Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman (3) Cutting-edge science and archaeology are reconstructing the life and culture of The Iceman—the 5000-year-old frozen corpse found buried in the ice of the Alps. By analyzing every inch of the Iceman's...
- 9. Leopards of the Night with David Attenborough Night stalkers by nature, leopards are observed both by night and day, using state-of-the-art camera equipment, to reveal never before seen hunting behavior. Filmed in the Luangua Valley in Zambia, Le...
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The Perfect Pearl
The pearl—the only gem produced by a living animal—has long carried a certain allure. Yet the best mollusk for making this gem—the pearl oyster—doesn't always produce a pearl, and even then, the pearl...
- 11. The Beast of Loch Ness Is it just a fairy tale, or could a primeval beast lurk in the deep, dark waters of a Scottish lake? Since it was first reported more than 60 years ago, hundreds claim to have witnessed the Loch Ness...
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Submarines, Secrets, and Spies
At the height of the Cold War, US subs gathered secrets that neither spies nor satellites could expose. Until recently, almost nobody knew the hidden history of their tragedies and triumphs. As the US...
- 13. Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvin When George Mallory was asked why he was willing to risk his life to climb Mount Everest in 1924 he simply replied "Because it's there." In Nova Video Library: Everest - The Mystery of Mallory and Irv...
- 14. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1) The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. In laboratories and clinics across the country a...
- 15. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2)
- 16. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3)
- 17. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4)
- 18. Battle Alert in the Gulf
- 19. Volcanoes of the Deep
- 20. Surviving AIDS The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. In laboratories and clinics across the country a...