NOVA: Ancient Computers

By WGBH - 1998

Get ready for a (literally) breathtaking trek up Mt. Everest, from Base Camp at 17,600 feet; through the chilling, corpse-strewn Death Zone; to the…

By WGBH - 2003

Go inside NASA's risky field trip to the red planet in this tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle of the $820 million Mars Exploration Rover…

By WGBH - 1983

Each minute, all over the world, a baby is born. An everyday occurrence, yet each birth is the culmination of one of nature's most complex…

By WGBH - 1996

The photographer who led us into the awe-inspiring world of the womb has agreed to take us behind the scenes of his own work. For the first time…

By WGBH - 2001

In Search for a Safe Cigarette, NOVA gains unprecedented access to tobacco research and manufacturing facilities and asks the question: Can science…

By WGBH - 1999

NOVA presents the fascinating story behind the Apollo space program, including the most remarkable feat in human history--the historic walk on the…

By WGBH - 2003

Just 200 miles south of the equator, Kilimanjaro has both equatorial and arctic conditions. Here, five distinct climatic zones inhabit the slopes of…

By WGBH - 2003

The challenge of rebuilding the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine. Discover how the Wright Brothers transformed themselves from bicycle mechanics to…

By WGBH - 2004

Little on this earth can withstand the violent fury of an F5 tornado. A churning vortex with winds over 300 miles an hour, these tornadoes create…

By WGBH - 2004

Dying To Be Thin introduces you to students, ballet dancers, fashion models and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered their…

By WGBH - 1987

A 30-year dream. A 50-mile shortcut. A timeless achievement. A 50-mile shortcut to the Pacific lying just north of the equator is one of the most…

By WGBH - 2000

Discover how the fearsome, mechanized marvel known as the trebuchet catapulted warfare in different directions in Medieval Siege. Travel back to the…

By WGBH - 2005

On January 3, 2004, a tiny rover named Spirit crash-landed on the dusty surface of Mars and sent its first message home. The elation of the assembled…

By WGBH - 1998

Join host Charles Osgood in this extraordinary chronicle of 20th-century scientific adventures. Viewers journey through 100 years of discovery…

By WGBH - 2004

The movie "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen, was based on fact - on the most daring and technically ingenious prison escape of World War II…

By WGBH - 2004

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dark, inhospitable cave located in a canyon near the Dead Sea was a secret refuge for Jewish refugees fleeing for their…

By WGBH - 2005

On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot set out on his epic flight across the English Channel, marking the first long-distance flight over…

By WGBH - 2002

Every year, thousands of men and women wage America's war on fire in our majestic wildlands. Armed with special training and the best technology, and…

By WGBH - 2005

There are few more tantalizing or notorious historical documents than the Vinland map. A faded, yellowing scrap of parchment bearing a faint tracery…

By WGBH - 1999

This is fact: Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in 1954. The rest of the crime is a haunting question mark. The Sheppard case led to the infamous…

By WGBH - 2002

A definitive and spellbinding record of the legendary Antarctic expedition. Trapped in the Antarctic ice over 1,000 miles from civilization, polar…

By WGBH - 2004

Who were the first Americans and where did they come from? The conventional view is that they arrived here around 13,500 years ago, but startling new…

By WGBH - 2005

On December 26, 2004, a series of tidal waves killed hundreds of thousands and devastated communities around the Indian Ocean. With around 100…

By WGBH - 1996

They're hiding in your closet. They're lurking in your bed. They're all over you--snacking on your skin, burrowing through your scalp, munching on…

By WGBH - 2004

It took all of human history until 1800 for the world's population to reach its first billion. Now we add a new billion nearly every dozen years…

By WGBH - 1997

Uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations as NOVA journeys to five archaeological sites where teams of experts use traditional techniques to test…

By WGBH - 1997

Uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations as NOVA journeys to an archaeological site where teams of experts use traditional techniques to test…

By WGBH - 1997

Uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations as NOVA journeys to an archaeological site where teams of experts use traditional techniques to test…

By WGBH - 1997

Uncover the secrets of ancient civilizations as NOVA journeys to an archaeological site where teams of experts use traditional techniques to test…

By WGBH - 1997

The Elegant Universe Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Join host Brian Greene, professor of physics and…

By WGBH - 2005

One of the most daring resistance operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, with its cargo of "heavy water…

By WGBH - 2005

Metropolitan Los Angeles is sitting on ground zero. Slicing under the highrises of downtown is a network of potentially deadly faults which could…

By WGBH - 2006

The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo is about to blow big. Is there enough time to evacuate the hundreds of thousands in its raging path? Stay with the…

By WGBH - 2006

At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent, scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the…

By WGBH - 2006

This DVD set including Killer Quake, In the Path of a Killer Volcano, Tsunami: Wave that Shook the World, and Everest: The Death Zone.

By WGBH - 2006

Each year, more than 1,000 mountain climbers venture to Denali National Park in Alaska and attempt to reach Mt. McKinley's summit, the highest point…

By WGBH - 2004

It is a tantalizing idea: a shriveled mummy that has lain neglected on a dusty museum shelf at Niagara Falls could be the remnants of a long-lost…

By WGBH - 2006

On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, killing at least 1,300, destroying over 600,000 houses, and turning downtown New…

By WGBH - 2006

Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the…

By WGBH - 2005

They're the stuff of myth: a remarkable fish whose male becomes pregnant and gives birth. Tour the magical and complex world of the seahorse-from an…

By WGBH - 1996

Are sharks developing a taste for human flesh? A rash of shark attacks off Hawaii spurs a team of researchers to track the predators' elusive…

By WGBH - 1994

Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back tells the gripping, true story of the catastrophic flight of the Apollo 13 and the heroic struggle to bring the…

By WGBH - 1994

Witness nature's fury as hurricanes Camille and Gilbert crash onto the Gulf coast. Join Hugh Willoughby on a data-gathering flight made into the eye…

By WGBH - 2000

Runaway Universe presents the dramatic quest to unlock the secrets of the stars as two rival astronomy teams search for exploding stars, map gigantic…

By WGBH - 1987

Supernovas are as spectacular as they are rare. In early 1987, a giant star exploded in the sky - one of the most violent celestial events since the…

By WGBH - 2006

Includes: Death Star; Death Of A Star; Runaway Universe

By WGBH - 2003

In this high-altitude adventure, author Jon Krakauer and world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker lead an expedition to the top of Antarctica's tallest…

By WGBH - 2006

Climb Five of the World's Great Peaks with NOVA. Everest: The Death Zone: Get ready for a breathtaking trek up Mt. Everest, from Base Camp through…

By WGBH - 2006

The Miracle of Life takes you on an incredible voyage through the human body as a new life begins. World-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart…

By WGBH - 2003

It has no pilot, no windows, and it's flown by remote control. But this odd-looking plane is already credited with helping destroy nearly 750 enemy…

By WGBH - 1996

For half a century we feared them. Now, for the first time, meet the rugged pilots of the Russian Air Force- and take a close-up look at the…

By WGBH - 2001

Travel on a perilous mission to repair and refly a rare B-29 bomber stranded on a Greenland icecap for almost 50 years. NOVA follows bold pilot…

By WGBH - 2001

Set includes B-29 Frozen in Time, Battle of the X-Planes, Spies That Fly, and Top Gun Over Moscow. 280 min on 4 discs

By WGBH - 1995

The brilliant colors and extraordinary creatures of the undersea world are revealed as NOVA takes you on the most dramatic tour ever of the wonders…

By WGBH - 1992

Dive beneath the surface and explore the secret world of dolphins. NOVA offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of dolphins with amazing…

By WGBH - 1992

This set contains three NOVA DVDs: Kingdom of the Seahorse, Shark Attack! and Private Lives of Dolphins. 168 min on 3 discs

By WGBH - 2001

ABC Nightline correspondent Robert Krulwich lends a lighthearted touch to genetic science in this provocative two-hour NOVA special that takes you…

By WGBH - 1998

The earthquake that shatters San Francisco in 1906 opens a century of explosive discoveries and debates in the earth sciences. See the Earth through…

By WGBH - 2004

Mont Blanc is one of the world's most popular destinations for Alpine climbers and scientists: no other peak has such a long record of mountaineering…

By WGBH - 1998

Includes the complete 10-hour A Science Odyssey series, plus Short Trips- a special DVD just for educators that encourages kids to think abour big…

By WGBH - 2004

Based on a Science Odyssey, the six segments included in Short Trips are designed to help educators get their students thinking and talking about big…

By WGBH - 2004

We feed them, breed them, pet them and dress them, but how well do we really know them? John Lithgow narrates this insightful look at how dogs…

By WGBH - 1996

Follow the investigators on the trail of the bombers and see what it takes to crack a bombing case. To show what science can do to help, NOVA…

By WGBH - 1995

Enjoy a celebration of the senses. Hearing visits the quietest place on earth, the music-rich Maori and a deaf woman regaining her hearing. Smell…

By WGBH - 1995

Enjoy a celebration of the senses- a vivid blend of science and imagery. Visit the quietest place on earth, the music-rich Maori and a deaf woman…

By WGBH - 1995

Enjoy a celebration of the senses-a vivid blend of science and imagery. Discover how touching is a potent tonic.

By WGBH - 1995

Enjoy a celebration of the senses- a vivid blend of science and imagery. Explore how art and science enhance vision, our most magical sense.

By WGBH - 2006

Join NOVA on a mind-bending hunt for a monster lurking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers are closing in on one of the most…

By WGBH - 2006

A century ago, Europe's most acclaimed celebrity was a fashionable, frail, Brazilian-born aviator named Alberto Santos-Dumont. The first to fly an…

By WGBH - 2006

An intense scientific debate has ignited around an extraordinary family living in rural Turkey with five adults who walk with their feet and the…

By WGBH - 2007

His house was firebombed. He lost his job on the eve of the Depression. He took on powerful, entrenched interests in the scientific establishment and…

By WGBH - 1996

In an ancient Mayan arena, enemies of notorious King Yax K'uk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful…

By WGBH - 2006

Deadly flooding in Africa. Catastrophic hurricanes in the U.S. Record-high temperatures worldwide. Are these natural, temporary glitches in our…

By WGBH - 2005

Building a submarine without the resources of a big shipyard and using only scavenged or off-the-shelf parts is an unusual idea by any standard. But…

By WGBH - 2000

Amazingly up-close footage filmed with specially developed macro lenses brings you the most intimate- and most spectacular- portrayal of a working…

By WGBH - 1995

From vast underground caverns, working class armies pour forth to defend their highly structured communal way of life. Are these feudal societies in…

By WGBH - 2000

Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World: Explore vast underground caverns, from which working-class armies pour forth to defend their highly…

By WGBH - 2003

Join the race against time as art and restoration experts mix history, science, and politics in a complicated and daunting mission to preserve the…

By WGBH - 2000

NOVA investigates the shocking truth behind the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and presents a moving portrait of a brilliant woman in…

By WGBH - 2000

By WGBH - 2007

In a vivid story, blooming with beauty and scientific mystery, NOVA goes hunting for the world's earliest flower. Although flowers have long been at…

By WGBH - 2007

In the face of global warming and other potentially harmful climate changes, there's new urgency about finding a solution to our uncertain energy…

By WGBH - 2007

On May 13, 1607, three English sailing vessels drop anchor beside a small island fringed by swamps in the James River, Virginia. On board: 104…

By WGBH - 2007

During the Ice Age-a million or more years ago-Australia was home to a zoo of extraordinary giant animals, including eight-foot-tall kangaroos…

By WGBH - 2007

Prediction is the siren song of earthquake studies-the alluring problem on which reputations can be won or wrecked. Not just careers, but million of…

By WGBH - 2008

Imagine a moment from the age of dinosaurs frozen in time: primitive birds, bees, insects, early mammals, the first known flowering plants, and of…

By WGBH - 2008

Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s. Few know that both…

By WGBH - 2008

Erected by the ancient Greeks as a temple to Athena, the Parthenon has served as a church, a fortress, an ammunition dump, and the model for…

By WGBH - 2008

In 1950, during the Korean War, Soviet and U.S. jet fighters clashed in the fastest dogfights ever seen. The most advanced planes of their day, the…

By WGBH - 2008

In the Mandaras Mountains of northern Cameroon live the Mofu - an ancient tribe that shares its homes and crops with insects in a mutual balance of…

By WGBH - 2008

This program captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public…

By WGBH - 2007

The world changed fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking news that the Soviet Union had successfully launched…

By WGBH - 2007

Every year thousands of athletes from across the globe flock to Boston to run the city's marathon, known worldwide as the ultimate test of stamina…

By WGBH - 2007

Unlock riddles and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryearís thrilling technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels…

By WGBH - 1995

Lightning! takes you on a high-voltage trip into the most electrically charged weather in the world--culminating in a dazzling lightning show set to…

By WGBH - 1996

From the maker of The Miracle of Life comes another astounding glimpse into the mysteries of life before birth. Once again, the micro-photography of…

By WGBH - 2009

Over the past 21 years, NOVA has followed a group of seven doctors from their first day at Harvard Medical School in 1987. All young, bright and…

By WGBH - 2008

What do movie special effects, the stock market, and heart attacks have in common? They are connected by a revolutionary new branch of math called…

By WGBH - 2008

This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by…

By WGBH - 2009

What killed the mammoths? Near the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago, these mighty beasts disappeared from North America together with some 35…

By WGBH - 2010

For 45 centuries, the Great Sphinx has cast its enigmatic gaze over Egypt's Giza plateau. The biggest and oldest statue in a land of colossal ancient…

By WGBH - 2010

For 45 centuries, the Great Sphinx has cast its enigmatic gaze over Egypt's Giza plateau. The biggest and oldest statue in a land of colossal ancient…

By WGBH - 2010

Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western…

By WGBH - 2010

Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western…

By WGBH - 2010

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has held a warm place in the public imagination. So, when the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden…

By WGBH - 2010

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has held a warm place in the public imagination. So, when the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden…

By WGBH - 2010

In the wake of the worst financial crisis in a generation, NOVA investigates what science can tell us about the way we make crucial financial…

By WGBH - 2010

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, every living thing in the blast zone was buried beneath 300 feet of avalanche debris, covered with steaming…

By WGBH - 2009

Why the AV version? Because it provides additional usage options for PBS videos. AV versions come with limited performance rights so they can be…

By WGBH - 2009

Why the AV version? Because it provides additional usage options for PBS videos. AV versions come with limited performance rights so they can be…

By WGBH - 2010

Hunting the Edge of Space, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery…

By WGBH - 2010

Hunting the Edge of Space, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery…

By WGBH - 2011

This NOVA scienceNOW poses the question - Can We make it to Mars? - and host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each…

By WGBH - 2011

This NOVA scienceNOW poses the question - Can We make it to Mars? - and host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each…

By WGBH - 2006

Central Ireland's waterlogged landscape is no ordinary ground. Here, the moist earth halts decomposition, perfectly preserving stunning evidence of…

By PBS Distribution - 2010

Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain, in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Who built…

By PBS Distribution - 2011

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and…

By PBS Distribution - 2012

Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our…

By PBS Distribution - 2008

Have you ever wondered what's going on inside your pet's mind? In What Are Animals Thinking? find out how a beehive resembles a human brain and…

By PBS Distribution - 2008

Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the strength of Ironman? David Pogue predicts…

By PBS Distribution - 2008

Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: This August, a rover named Curiosity will…

By PBS Distribution - 2008

Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: This August, a rover named Curiosity will…

By PBS Distribution - 2008

How Smart Can We Get? How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in the genes? Or is it hard work? Episodes include: Einstein's Brain; Mystery of…

By PBS Distribution - 2012

Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this…

By PBS Distribution - 2012

n April 2010, the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano turned much of the northern hemisphere into an ash-strewn no-fly zone, stranding…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans - people physically identical to us today - left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

NOVA reveals the amazing technologies that make drones so powerful. From cameras that can capture every detail of an entire city at a glance, to…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

Around 3,600 years ago, reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depict pharaohs and warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

In the aftermath of his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh-Lucky Lindy-became the most famous human being on earth…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive…

By PBS Distribution - 2013

What makes a person walk into a theater, church, or classroom and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to commit the…

By VEA Group Pty Ltd - 2011

Over 800 billion gigabytes of information is used globally every year. This incredibly large volume of data must all be stored, retrieved, displayed…

By VEA Group Pty Ltd - 2011

In this program we meet the iPod and iPad development team at Bjango Software as they manage and develop a complex ICT project. Following the stages…

By VEA Group Pty Ltd - 2010

Maintaining and developing new and existing technologies requires the use of solid problem-solving techniques. In this program, we explain the system…