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Season 28

(2000)

Cast

Episodes

Lincoln's Secret Weapon poster

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October 24, 2000

The film chronicles an expedition to study and retrieve parts of the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad, which …

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October 31, 2000

The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust …

Hitler's Lost Sub poster

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November 14, 2000

The film follows a six-year odyssey by a group of divers to identify a mysterious U-boat they discovered in 1991 off th…

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November 21, 2000

The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic …

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November 28, 2000

The film takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islan…

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December 12, 2000

The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorde…

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December 18, 2000

The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued un…

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January 16, 2001

The program follows a French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old …

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January 30, 2001

The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civi…

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February 6, 2001

The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable priso…

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February 13, 2001

The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the…

The Cancer Warrior poster

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February 27, 2001

For decades Dr. Judah Folkman struggled against the grain of many in the cancer research community in his quest to pion…

Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor (1) poster

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March 27, 2001

In "Tattooed Doctor," the first hour of NOVA's "Survivor M.D." series, emergency-room physician Dr. Tom Tarter eloquent…

Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions (2) poster

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April 3, 2001

In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education…

Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds (3) poster

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April 10, 2001

In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education…

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April 17, 2001

This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the race to capture one of t…

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April 24, 2001

A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are gen…