Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

Season 26 - Episode 1

In 1714, following a maritime disaster, British Parliament offers £20,000 for the first reliable method of determining longitude on a ship a...

Chasing El Nino

Season 26 - Episode 2

A massive planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportion...

Terror In Space

Season 26 - Episode 3

Experience the harrowing and life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station through the eyes of the Russian and American astro...

Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond

Season 26 - Episode 4

NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception.

Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius

Season 26 - Episode 5

The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today.

Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven (1)

Season 26 - Episode 6

This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence ...

Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden (2)

Season 26 - Episode 7

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...

Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman (3)

Season 26 - Episode 8

Cutting-edge science and archaeology are reconstructing the life and culture of The Iceman—the 5000-year-old frozen corpse found buried in t...

Leopards of the Night with David Attenborough

Season 26 - Episode 9

Night stalkers by nature, leopards are observed both by night and day, using state-of-the-art camera equipment, to reveal never before seen ...

The Perfect Pearl

Season 26 - Episode 10

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 oys...

The Beast of Loch Ness

Season 26 - Episode 11

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 6...

Submarines, Secrets, and Spies

Season 26 - Episode 12

At the height of the Cold War, US subs gathered secrets that neither spies nor satellites could expose. Until recently, almost nobody knew t...

Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvin

Season 26 - Episode 13

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 ...

Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1)

Season 26 - Episode 14

The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that c...

Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2)

Season 26 - Episode 15

Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3)

Season 26 - Episode 16

Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4)

Season 26 - Episode 17

Battle Alert in the Gulf

Season 26 - Episode 18

Volcanoes of the Deep

Season 26 - Episode 19

Surviving AIDS

Season 26 - Episode 20

The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that c...