27x01 Fall Of The Leaning Tower
October 5, 1999 8:00 pm
The film explores why the famous tower of Pisa hasn't fallen over yet and investigates the many efforts taken to preserve this medieval treasure.
27x02 Time Travel
October 12, 1999 8:00 pm
In the program, leading physicists delve into the mystery of whether time travel is possible, and if so, how one might go about building a time machine.
27x03 The Killer's Trail
October 19, 1999 8:00 pm
"The Killer's Trail," in which a team of experts investigates the forensic evidence in the 1954 murder of Marylin Sheppard, one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the U.S.
27x04 Island Of The Spirits
November 2, 1999 8:00 pm
NOVA program "Island of the Spirits," which leads viewers to Hokkaido, Japan, an otherworldly land of dense mountain forests, untamed creatures like the grizzly and wolf, and Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu.
27x05 Decoding Nazi Secrets
November 9, 1999 8:00 pm
A two-hour NOVA special that chronicles how the Allies succeeded in cracking the infamous German message-coding machine, the Enigma.
27x06 Voyage Of Doom
November 23, 1999 8:00 pm
The program chronicles the discovery and excavation of the French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle's ship, La Belle, which sank off the coast of Texas in 1686.
27x07 Electric Heart
December 21, 1999 8:00 pm
The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades.
27x08 Tales From The Hive
January 4, 2000 8:00 pm
In this NOVA program, our cinematographer literally filmed inside a hive and followed bees in flight to capture closeups of honeybee behavior.
27x09 Lost On Everest
January 18, 2000 8:00 pm
The program chronicles a successful 1999 NOVA expedition to investigate the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on Everest in 1924. During this expedition, which included a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure, Mallory's body was found, though the mystery only deepened.
27x10 Secrets Of Lost Empires (6): Medieval Siege
February 1, 2000 8:00 pm
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, a team of timber framers and other specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuchets, a devastating engine of war popular in the Middle Ages.
27x11 Diamond Deception
February 1, 2000 8:00 pm
The film documents the efforts of researchers around the world to create synthetic diamonds, some of which have become so indistinguishable from natural diamonds as to fool experts.
27x12 Secrets Of Lost Empires (7): Pharaoh's Obelisk
February 8, 2000 8:00 pm
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons, and timber framers to probe the mystery of how the ancients shaped, transported, and erected their elegant obelisks.
27x13 Trillion Dollar Bet
February 8, 2000 8:00 pm
The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earned its creators the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics.
27x14 Secrets Of Lost Empires (8): Easter Island
February 15, 2000 8:00 pm
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, showcases the efforts of a team of archeologists, engineers, and other experts to transport an Easter Island moai, or carved stone monolith, overland and successfully raise it onto a pedestal.
27x15 Mystery Of The First Americans
February 15, 2000 8:00 pm
film documents the discovery and ensuing controversy over the Kennewick Man, a well-preserved, 9,000-year-old human skeleton found in Washington State in 1996.
27x16 Secrets Of Lost Empires (9): Roman Bath
February 22, 2000 8:00 pm
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians designs, builds, and tests a functioning Roman bath in the Turkish countryside.
27x17 Lost Tribes Of Israel
February 22, 2000 8:00 pm
The program follows anthropologist Tudor Parfitt's riveting journey to find both the lost city of the Lemba and the truth behind their claim to an ancient Jewish heritage.
27x18 Secrets Of Lost Empires (10): China Bridge
February 29, 2000 8:00 pm
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design and build a Chinese bridge known only from an ancient painting.
27x19 What's Up With The Weather?
April 18, 2000 8:00 pm
In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st century: the truth about global warming.
27x20 Stationed In The Stars
April 25, 2000 8:00 pm
The broadcast explores America's manned space program and the crisis caused by Russia's delay in delivering the critical third piece of the International Space Station.
27x21 The Vikings
May 9, 2000 8:00 pm
The program examines a new, less barbarian image of the Norsemen based on recent archeological investigations.
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