NOVA - Season 27
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Fall of the Leaning Tower
Season 27 - Episode 1
Even before it was finished 800 years ago, the Leaning Tower of Pisa - a masterpiece of medieval architecture - began to topple, shaken by e...
Time Travel
Season 27 - Episode 2
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 t...
The Killer's Trail
Season 27 - Episode 3
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...
Island of the Spirits
Season 27 - Episode 4
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 steami...
Decoding Nazi Secrets
Season 27 - Episode 5
Most historians agree that by enabling Allied commanders to eavesdrop on German plans, Station X shortened the war by 2 or 3 years. Its deco...
Voyage of Doom
Season 27 - Episode 6
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 o...
Electric Heart
Season 27 - Episode 7
The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artifici...
Tales from the Hive
Season 27 - Episode 8
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 docu...
Lost on Everest
Season 27 - Episode 9
The program chronicles a successful 1999 NOVA expedition to investigate the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine hig...
Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege (1)
Season 27 - Episode 10
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 f...
Diamond Deception
Season 27 - Episode 11
The film documents the efforts of researchers around the world to create synthetic diamonds, some of which have become so indistinguishable ...
Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk (2)
Season 27 - Episode 12
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemason...
Trillion Dollar Bet
Season 27 - Episode 13
The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world...
Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island (3)
Season 27 - Episode 14
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...
Mystery of the First Americans
Season 27 - Episode 15
In 1996, near Kennewick, Washington, a suspected murder victim is identified by forensic anthropologists as Caucasian - but turns out to be ...
Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath (4)
Season 27 - Episode 16
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians d...
Lost Tribes of Israel
Season 27 - Episode 17
At the heart of Jewish tradition lies the haunting mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ever since their defeat and banishment by the Assyr...
Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5)
Season 27 - Episode 18
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 timbe...
What's Up with the Weather?
Season 27 - Episode 19
In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial iss...
Stationed in the Stars
Season 27 - Episode 20
The broadcast explores America's manned space program and the crisis caused by Russia's delay in delivering the critical third piece of the ...
The Vikings
Season 27 - Episode 21
In this two-hour special, NOVA presents a dramatic investigation of a people who were much more than axe-wielding pirates. It features stunn...