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- NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood-wasp laying its egg inside trees, etc.
- This episode takes a look at the Colorado River and its impact on the lives of the people living in the Southwestern states. The story also looks at how human development has caused environmental degradation of the river such that the once mighty river doesn't drain into the sea anymore.
- StarsDuncan Carse
- StarsBernard Arcand
- DirectorFrancis GladstoneStarsOliver CopeStuart GeorgeJerome LettvinThe story honored the men who revolutionized medicine in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia.
- DirectorStuart HarrisMick Jackson
- StarsTerrence Currier
- DirectorFrancis GladstoneStarsRichard Kiley
- StarsRobert Redford
- DirectorJohn BordenNeil GoodwinStarsRobert Dryden
- StarsMimi Michaela Konoza
- DirectorFrancis Gladstone
- The true story of smallpox and the successful campaign to eradicate the virus from the world. Telling the story of the long history of smallpox. How vaccination using Cowpox was started in England in the 1790s. Using circular vaccination in the 1970s to stop and eliminate the last outbreaks of the disease. With help from the World Health Organization (WHO), the last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977. The World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980.
- DirectorFrancis Gladstone
- Is the sun static or does it vary, and if it varies how does that affect the Earth and its climate? Studying sunspots and other solar phenomena may provide the answers.
- StarsRobert Redford
- DirectorFrancis Gladstone
- The century old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is now at the heart of a scientific revolution. Engineers and designers are discovering how, by adopting the principles of origami, they are able to reshape the world around us... and even within us. The rules of folding are at the heart of many natural phenomena, from how leaves blossom to how beetles fly. But now, origami is being adopted in designing new drugs, micro-robots, even future space missions! With this burgeoning field of origami-inspired-design, the questions is: can the mathematics of origami be boiled down to one elegant algorithm - a fail-proof guidebook to make any object out of a flat surface, just by folding? And if so, what, what would that mean for the future of design? Explore the high-tech future of this age-old art as NOVA unfolds the secrets of Origami.
- StarsCarl Sagan
- DirectorBen SheddStarsTony KahnJames FitzpatrickFrank Irving
- Documentary about the life of American industrialist Henry Ford. Using Newsreels, dramatic films and documentaries to tell the story of his life from boyhood until his death in 1947.
- While testing the The Holmdel Horn Antenna in New Jersey in 1965, a constant background radiation of 3.5 Kelvin was discovered in every direction the telescope was aimed. The scientist assumed there was a fault in the equipment, they went to the extremes of covering their giant Horn Radio Telescope in foil and removing every trace of bird droppings from this giant instrument. Still the telescope continued to pickup a background radiation reading of 3.5K, no matter where the telescope was aimed. This is believed to be residual radiation from the Big Bang, the creation of the universe itself, some 15 billions years ago. This episode of NOVA traces this discovery and how it may help confirm Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
- DirectorStuart Harris
- Explores the uses of hydrogen as a possible fuel source.
- DirectorBrian Kaufman