NOVA - Season 28
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS17 Episodes
Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Season 28 - Episode 1
The film chronicles an expedition to study and retrieve parts of the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad, which sank off North Caroli...
Holocaust on Trial
Season 28 - Episode 2
The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial
Hitler's Lost Sub
Season 28 - Episode 3
The film follows a six-year odyssey by a group of divers to identify a mysterious U-boat they discovered in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey
Runaway Universe
Season 28 - Episode 4
The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic cosmic patterns of ga...
Garden of Eden
Season 28 - Episode 5
The film takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islands scattered between ...
Dying to Be Thin
Season 28 - Episode 6
The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anor...
Japan's Secret Garden
Season 28 - Episode 7
The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands...
Sultan's Lost Treasure
Season 28 - Episode 8
The program follows a French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck off...
Vanished!
Season 28 - Episode 9
The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that cr...
Nazi Prison Escape
Season 28 - Episode 10
The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.
Lost King of the Maya
Season 28 - Episode 11
The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Cop...
The Cancer Warrior
Season 28 - Episode 12
For decades Dr. Judah Folkman struggled against the grain of many in the cancer research community in his quest to pioneer a novel form of c...
Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor (1)
Season 28 - Episode 13
In "Tattooed Doctor," the first hour of NOVA's "Survivor M.D." series, emergency-room physician Dr. Tom Tarter eloquently describes some of ...
Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions (2)
Season 28 - Episode 14
In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-l...
Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds (3)
Season 28 - Episode 15
In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-l...
Cracking the Code of Life
Season 28 - Episode 16
This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the race to capture one of the biggest prizes in ...
Harvest of Fear
Season 28 - Episode 17
A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed ...