NOVA (Mùa 28)

Lincoln's Secret Weapon (Tập 1)

Biên kịch: Jonathan Wickham

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-10-24

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The film chronicles an expedition to study and retrieve parts of the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad, which sank off North Carolina only months after its famous battle with the CSS Virginia.

Holocaust on Trial (Tập 2)

Biên kịch: Leslie Woodhead

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-10-31

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial

Hitler's Lost Sub (Tập 3)

Biên kịch: Rushmore DeNooyer

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-11-14

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: 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 (Tập 4)

Biên kịch: Julia Cort

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-11-21

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic cosmic patterns of galaxies, and grapple with the ultimate question: What is the fate of the universe?

Garden of Eden (Tập 5)

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-11-28

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The film takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islands scattered between India and Madagascar.

Dying to Be Thin (Tập 6)

Biên kịch: Larkin McPhee

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-12-12

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.

Japan's Secret Garden (Tập 7)

Biên kịch: David Attenborough

Ngày phát sóng: 2000-12-18

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands of years.

Sultan's Lost Treasure (Tập 8)

Biên kịch: Stephen Sweigart

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-01-16

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The program follows a French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck off the coast of Brunei.

Vanished! (Tập 9)

Biên kịch: Jonathan Renouf

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-01-30

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that crashed in the Andes in 1947.

Nazi Prison Escape (Tập 10)

Biên kịch: Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-02-06

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.

Lost King of the Maya (Tập 11)

Biên kịch: Gary Glassman

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-02-13

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Copán, a Classic Maya site in northern Honduras.

The Cancer Warrior (Tập 12)

Biên kịch: Nancy Linde

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-02-27

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: 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 cancer treatment. In 1960, when he was a young surgical resident, Folkman discovered a startling secret about how cancer grows, which he called angiogenesis. It was a clue he would pursue for the next 40 years. "Cancer Warrior" tells the incredible saga of his personal dedication in a race to defeat one of humanity's most invincible foes.

Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor (1) (Tập 13)

Biên kịch: Michael Barnes

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-03-27

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: In "Tattooed Doctor," the first hour of NOVA's "Survivor M.D." series, emergency-room physician Dr. Tom Tarter eloquently describes some of the challenges and rewards of emergency medicine.

Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions (2) (Tập 14)

Biên kịch: Michael Barnes

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-04-03

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of training to be a fully qualified doctor. Now all but one of them (who switched careers) are out in the world in high-powered medical careers, trying to balance the demands of work, families, and personal lives, as NOVA reports on Survivor MD, which airs in three one-hour segments.

Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds (3) (Tập 15)

Biên kịch: Michael Barnes

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-04-10

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of training to be a fully qualified doctor. Now all but one of them (who switched careers) are out in the world in high-powered medical careers, trying to balance the demands of work, families, and personal lives, as NOVA reports on Survivor MD, which airs in three one-hour segments.

Cracking the Code of Life (Tập 16)

Biên kịch: Julia Cort

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-04-17

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the race to capture one of the biggest prizes in scientific history: the complete letter-by-letter sequence of genetic information that defines human life -- the human genome.

Harvest of Fear (Tập 17)

Biên kịch: Jon Palfreman

Ngày phát sóng: 2001-04-24

Thời lượng: 55 min

Tổng quan: A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed to produce vitamin A, preventing millions of African children from going blind. Other plants are modified to produce plastic or pharmaceuticals. While many see these as wondrous advancements, others fear they could spawn serious new threats to human health, a loss of genetic viability in our most important crop species, and other signficant and perhaps unforeseen problems. In "Harvest of Fear," NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to explore the growing controversy over genetically modified agriculture.