NOVA — Season 28
All 17 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
The Navy undertakes a risky project to salvage the USS Monitor, an innovative armored combat vessel from the Civil War.
- 02
A trial in London's High Court examines evidence from Auschwitz to successfully challenge the claims of Holocaust "deniers".
- 03
A fisherman's net snags a missing World War II German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey.
- 04
Astronomers grapple with some very big questions: what is the size and shape of the universe, and how will it end?
- 05
The giant tortoise and an ant-sized frog are just two of the dazzling array of life-forms native to the Seychelles Islands.
- 06
Life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are on the rise among America's youth.
- 07
For at least 2,000 years, the wildlife and people living around Japan's Lake Biwa have lived in a harmonious balance.
- 08
Archeologists salvage more than 12,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from an ancient shipwreck.
- 09
The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved.
- 10
From 1940 to 1945, Allied prisoners of war engineered spectacular escapes from Colditz Castle, the Nazis' most impregnable prison.
- 11
Using ancient hieroglyphs and new excavations, archeologists investigate the rise and fall of the majestic city of Copan.
- 12
Judah Folkman and other researchers pioneer a novel approach to cancer treatment.
- 13
Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor
NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 1 of 3)
- 14
Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions
NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 2 of 3)
- 15
NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 3 of 3)
- 16
Follow the race to decode the human genome and see how this newfound knowledge is already changing medicine.
- 17
Genetically modified foods—a wondrous advance or a new threat? Explore the growing controversy.
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