28x01 Lincoln's Secret Weapon
October 24, 2000 8:00 pm
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.
28x02 Holocaust On Trial
October 31, 2000 8:00 pm
The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial
28x03 Hitler's Lost Sub
November 14, 2000 8:00 pm
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
28x04 Runaway Universe
November 21, 2000 8:00 pm
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?
28x05 Garden Of Eden
November 28, 2000 8:00 pm
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.
28x06 Dying To Be Thin
December 12, 2000 8:00 pm
The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.
28x07 Japan's Secret Garden
December 18, 2000 8:00 pm
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.
28x08 Sultan's Lost Treasure
January 16, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x09 Vanished!
January 30, 2001 8:00 pm
The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that crashed in the Andes in 1947.
28x10 Nazi Prison Escape
February 6, 2001 8:00 pm
The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.
28x11 Lost King Of The Maya
February 13, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x12 The Cancer Warrior
February 27, 2001 8:00 pm
The program follows the extraordinary odyssey of surgeon-turned-researcher Dr. Judah Folkman, who, together with colleagues at Children's Hospital in Boston, has spent over 30 years searching for ways to curb cancer by cutting off blood flow to tumors.
28x13 Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor
March 27, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x14 Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions
April 3, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x15 Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds
April 10, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x16 Cracking The Code Of Life
April 17, 2001 8:00 pm
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.
28x17 Harvest Of Fear
April 24, 2001 8:00 pm
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.



