Documentary

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse Black holes are the most...

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Enemy Of The Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story DVD

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the Internet, and "big data," the science of forecasting...

See the world through the eyes of nature's fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Though once endangered in the U.S. this spectacular predator is now thriving again in American cities and on every continent but Antarctica. Join expert Lloyd Buck as he...

The words "My Lai" are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16 1968. Now drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants...

Killer Hurricanes pursues the riddle of an 18th century Caribbean superstorm that killed 20,000, the highest known death toll of any single weather event. To reconstruct it's epic scale and investigate what made it so devastating, NOVA joins historians...

In 1968, a Soviet sub carrying three of the nation's state-of-art nuclear warheads sank in the north-central Pacific. The U.S. located the sub within weeks, but all 98 crew members died. Within 6 years, the U.S. then conducted a top-secret operation to...

Nova: Death Dive To Saturn DVD

Though literary fame and fortune evaded him during his brief, troubled life, poet and author Edgar Allan Poe has gone on to achieve legendary status, single-handedly inventing the detective story category, refining science fiction, and popularizing the...

Cats are among the most feared and revered creatures on the planet. Their power, strength, and enigmatic nature have fascinated us for centuries. They are one of the most studied mammals in the world yet only now is their real identity being understood...

From acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, "Death and the Civil War" explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered...