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Nova Season 27 Episodes
Season 27 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2000 - 2000
Episode 1
Tales from the Hive
Tue, Jan 4, 2000
Amazingly up-close footage filmed with specially developed macro lenses brings the viewer the most intimate and spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony. Fly along on the high-speed mid-air "wedding flight" of a drone and his queen. Realize that it takes nectar from 10 million flowers to create a single liter of honey. Witness the life-and-death battle between a pair of freshly emerged rival queens. Amaze to the attack of a bee eater bird's feast on a hive's foraging fleet.
Episode 2
Lost on Everest
Tue, Jan 18, 2000
On June 8, 1924, near the summit of the highest peak on earth, British climber George Leigh Mallory vanished into the clouds and instantly became a legendary figure. Did Mallory and his companion actually make it to the top of Everest?
Episode 3
Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege
Tue, Feb 1, 2000
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.
Episode 4
The Diamond Deception
Tue, Feb 1, 2000
NOVA dramatizes the breakneck battle in the 1950s as a team at General Electric beat its rivals to synthesize the first industrial diamonds. Then the show explores today's race to produce the first artificial gem-quality stones.
Episode 5
Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk
Tue, Feb 8, 2000
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.
Episode 6
Trillion Dollar Bet
Tue, Feb 8, 2000
For over a hundred years economists had dreamed of a way of reducing risk in the stock market. Two Nobel Prize winning economists found a formula which it seemed did exactly that- only for a roiling crisis to sweep through the markets, leaving their new hedge fund almost broke
Episode 7
Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island
Tue, Feb 15, 2000
NOVA showcases the efforts of a team of archaeologists, engineers, and other experts to transport an Easter Island moai, or carved stone monolith, overland and successfully raise it onto a pedestal.
Episode 8
Mystery of the First Americans
Tue, Feb 15, 2000
NOVA 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.
Episode 9
Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath
Tue, Feb 22, 2000
NOVA follows an international crew of archaeologists, engineers, and historians as they design, build, and test a functioning Roman bath in the Turkish countryside.
Episode 10
Lost Tribes of Israel
Tue, Feb 22, 2000
NOVA 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.
Episode 11
Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge
Tue, Feb 29, 2000
Chronicling 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.
Episode 12
What's Up with the Weather?
Tue, Apr 18, 2000
FRONTLINE and NOVA take on one of the most complex and important challenges facing the world today. Does the release of greenhouse gases threaten the future of human life on our planet?
Episode 13
Stationed in the Stars
Tue, Apr 25, 2000
NOVA 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.
Episode 14
The Vikings
Tue, May 9, 2000
NOVA breathes life into the towns the Vikings founded, from Dublin to Novgorod. "The Vikings" strips away the myth of savagery to reveal a portrait of a people who brought fear, prosperity, and new horizons to the world of medieval Europe.
Episode 15
Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Tue, Oct 24, 2000
This is the story of an armored combat vessel that opened up an entirely new chapter in naval warfare. At a critical moment of the American Civil War in 1861, the Navy commissioned the USS Monitor to test a daring idea-that a mechanical fighting machine could inflict a crushing defeat on Confederate forces. Not long after its legendary confrontation with the ironclad Merrimack, the Monitor sank in stormy seas off Cape Hatteras. Almost a century and a half after these stirring events, NOVA's cameras follow the Navy's risky efforts to salvage the secrets of the Monitor as it lies rusting on the ocean bottom.
Episode 16
Holocaust on Trial
Tue, Oct 31, 2000
An account of Holocaust denier David Irving, and his 1999 libel trial against historian Deborah Lipstadt who challenged his deceptions.
Episode 17
Hitler's Lost Sub
Tue, Nov 14, 2000120 mins
In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II. NOVA follows Chatterton and his dive partners in their dangerous quest to identify the missing U-boat.
Episode 18
Runaway Universe
Tue, Nov 21, 2000
Nova follows cosmologists as they make the inconceivable discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This new reality forces the astronomical community to deal with the likelihood that the universe is composed primarily of dark energy.
Episode 19
Garden of Eden
Tue, Nov 28, 2000
NOVA takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islands scattered between India and Madagascar.
Episode 20
Dying to Be Thin
Tue, Dec 12, 2000
NOVA examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia. Meet students, ballet dancers, fashion models, and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered their disease.
Episode 21
Japan's Secret Garden
Tue, Dec 19, 2000
NOVA chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands of years.