Season 27

episodes

1. 1. Fall of the Leaning Tower 1999-10-05 55 min Even before it was finished 800 years ago, the Leaning Tower of Pisa - a masterpiece of medieval architecture - began to topple, shaken by earthquakes and sinking slowly into the unstable soil. Today,...
2. 2. Time Travel 1999-10-12 55 min In the program, leading physicists delve into the mystery of whether time travel is possible, and if so, how one might go about building a time machine.
3. 3. The Killer's Trail 1999-10-19 55 min The death of Marilyn Sheppard in 1954 is one of the most famous unsolved murders in America. The indictment of her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, quickly became the "Trial of the Century," then the "Re-Tr...
4. 4. Island of the Spirits 1999-11-02 55 min In the far north of Japan, thrust out into the north Pacific, is the remote island of Hokkaido. It's a land of towering volcanoes and steaming lakes, marshy valleys and fairy tale forests. Among this...
5. 5. Decoding Nazi Secrets 1999-11-09 55 min Most historians agree that by enabling Allied commanders to eavesdrop on German plans, Station X shortened the war by 2 or 3 years. Its decoded messages played a vital role in defeating the U-boat men...
6. 6. Voyage of Doom 1999-11-23 55 min Buried in mud beneath the shallow waters of Matagorda Bay in Texas, lay a glorious remnant of one of the most ill-fated voyages of the Age of Discovery. After years of searching the area, nautical arc...
7. 7. Electric Heart 1999-12-21 55 min The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades.
8. 8. Tales from the Hive 2000-01-04 55 min NOVA chronicles a year in the life of a bee colony with stunning images that take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. The documentary team spent a year developing special macro lenses an...
9. 9. Lost on Everest 2000-01-18 55 min The program chronicles a successful 1999 NOVA expedition to investigate the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on Everest in 1924. During this expedition, which included...
10. 10. Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege (1) 2000-02-01 55 min In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, a team of timber framers and other specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuchets, a devastating engine of war popula...
11. 11. Diamond Deception 2000-02-01 55 min The film documents the efforts of researchers around the world to create synthetic diamonds, some of which have become so indistinguishable from natural diamonds as to fool experts.
12. 12. Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk (2) 2000-02-08 55 min In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons, and timber framers to probe the mystery of how the ancien...
13. 13. Trillion Dollar Bet 2000-02-08 55 min 7.0 The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earned its creators the 1997 Nobel Prize in...
14. 14. Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island (3) 2000-02-15 55 min The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, showcases the efforts of a team of archeologists, engineers, and other experts to transport an Easter Island moai, or carved stone...
15. 15. Mystery of the First Americans 2000-02-15 55 min In 1996, near Kennewick, Washington, a suspected murder victim is identified by forensic anthropologists as Caucasian - but turns out to be almost 10,000 years old. For fifty years our picture of preh...
16. 16. Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath (4) 2000-02-22 55 min In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians designs, builds, and tests a functioning Roman bath in the Tu...
17. 17. Lost Tribes of Israel 2000-02-22 55 min At the heart of Jewish tradition lies the haunting mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ever since their defeat and banishment by the Assyrians in 722 BC., the Lost Tribes fate has inspired countless...
18. 18. Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5) 2000-02-29 55 min The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design and build a Chinese bridge known only fr...
19. 19. What's Up with the Weather? 2000-04-18 55 min In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st century: the truth about global warming.
20. 20. Stationed in the Stars 2000-04-25 55 min The broadcast explores America's manned space program and the crisis caused by Russia's delay in delivering the critical third piece of the International Space Station.
21. 21. The Vikings 2000-05-09 55 min In this two-hour special, NOVA presents a dramatic investigation of a people who were much more than axe-wielding pirates. It features stunning camerawork in Scandinavia and the far-flung countries th...