Even before its completion eight centuries ago, the Leaning Tower of Pisa – a marvel of medieval design – succumbed to a slow, agonizing tilt, weakened by tremors and sinking gradually into the unstable ground. Now, its summit overhangs the…

The program features prominent physicists exploring the enduring enigma of time travel: its potential reality and the hypothetical mechanics of constructing a device capable of traversing it.

Marilyn Sheppard’s death in 1954 remains among America's most enduring unsolved mysteries. The subsequent indictment of her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, swiftly transformed the case into a sensation, first dubbed the "Trial of the Century" an…

Hokkaido, a remote island in the northern reaches of Japan, juts into the North Pacific. It is a land of imposing volcanoes and geothermally active lakes, of boggy valleys and forests that seem plucked from a fairytale. Within this captivat…

Historians largely concur that Station X, by providing Allied commanders with access to German plans, shortened the war by two or three years. The messages it deciphered were instrumental in overcoming the U-boat threat, disrupting Rommel's…

Deep within the muddy embrace of Matagorda Bay in Texas rests a magnificent relic from one of the Age of Discovery's most tragic expeditions. After years of searching the waters, nautical archaeologists, conducting a magnetometer survey, ze…

The program chronicles the decades-long pursuit of a practical artificial heart by a dedicated group of brilliant, driven surgeons and researchers.

*NOVA* offers a year-long chronicle of a bee colony's existence, revealing its hidden world through breathtaking imagery. The documentary team dedicated a year to crafting specialized macro lenses and a dedicated studio, enabling the film’s…

The program recounts the 1999 NOVA expedition, a quest to unravel the enduring enigma of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's vanishing act on Mount Everest in 1924. The journey, which incorporated a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure, yielded the dis…

The film, presented as part of the NOVA series *Secrets of Lost Empires*, documents a team of skilled timber framers and specialists as they undertake the ambitious project of designing, constructing, and firing a pair of trebuchets—a formi…

The film chronicles the global endeavor to manufacture diamonds in laboratories, detailing how some of these synthetic stones have achieved a level of perfection that renders them virtually indistinguishable from their natural counterparts,…

The film, a contribution to the NOVA series *Secrets of Lost Empires*, assembles a diverse team – Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons, and timber framers – to investigate the enigma of how the ancient world crafted, moved, and erected its…

The film recounts the compelling story behind the creation of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical achievement that revolutionized finance and ultimately brought its inventors the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Featured in the NOVA series *Secrets of Lost Empires*, the film documents the collaborative work of archaeologists, engineers, and specialists as they undertake the challenging task of moving an Easter Island moai – a monumental carved ston…

In 1996, a body discovered near Kennewick, Washington, was initially identified by forensic anthropologists as belonging to a Caucasian individual – only to be revealed as nearly ten thousand years old. For half a century, the prevailing un…

The film, a segment of the NOVA series *Secrets of Lost Empires*, documents the efforts of a diverse team – archaeologists, engineers, and historians from around the world – as they conceive, construct, and rigorously test a fully functiona…

The enduring enigma of the Lost Tribes of Israel resides at the core of Jewish tradition. Since their defeat and exile by the Assyrians in 722 BC, the fate of these tribes has fueled countless assertions of Jewish lineage among communities …

Featured within the NOVA series *Secrets of Lost Empires*, the film chronicles a 1999 undertaking by a team assembled by NOVA: scholars and timber framers dedicated to designing and constructing a Chinese bridge. The bridge’s existence was …

"What's Up with the Weather?" presents a collaborative undertaking by NOVA and FRONTLINE, delving into the intricate science and contentious politics surrounding a defining challenge of the 21st century: the reality of global warming.

The program examines America’s efforts in manned spaceflight, focusing on the disruption caused by Russia's delayed delivery of a vital component for the International Space Station.

Over the course of two hours, NOVA offers a compelling exploration of a people often misunderstood as little more than brutal pirates. Through breathtaking cinematography captured in Scandinavia and the distant lands the Vikings reached, hi…