NOVA — Season 28

The Navy undertakes a risky project to salvage the USS Monitor, an innovative armored combat vessel from the Civil War.

A trial in London's High Court examines evidence from Auschwitz to successfully challenge the claims of Holocaust "deniers".

A fisherman's net snags a missing World War II German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Astronomers grapple with some very big questions: what is the size and shape of the universe, and how will it end?

The giant tortoise and an ant-sized frog are just two of the dazzling array of life-forms native to the Seychelles Islands.

Life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are on the rise among America's youth.

For at least 2,000 years, the wildlife and people living around Japan's Lake Biwa have lived in a harmonious balance.

Archeologists salvage more than 12,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from an ancient shipwreck.

The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved.

From 1940 to 1945, Allied prisoners of war engineered spectacular escapes from Colditz Castle, the Nazis' most impregnable prison.

Using ancient hieroglyphs and new excavations, archeologists investigate the rise and fall of the majestic city of Copan.

Judah Folkman and other researchers pioneer a novel approach to cancer treatment.

NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 1 of 3)

NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 2 of 3)

NOVA follows seven Harvard Medical School students for 13 years to see what it takes to become a fully qualified doctor. (Part 3 of 3)

Follow the race to decode the human genome and see how this newfound knowledge is already changing medicine.

Genetically modified foods—a wondrous advance or a new threat? Explore the growing controversy.