The BEST episodes of NOVA season 27
Every episode of NOVA season 27, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NOVA season 27!
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#1 - Stationed In The Stars
Season 27 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2000
The broadcast 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.
#2 - Hitler's Lost Sub
Season 27 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/14/2000
The film follows a six-year odyssey by a group of divers to identify a mysterious U-boat they discovered in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey
#3 - Secrets Of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk
Season 27 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2000
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, 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.
#4 - Lost Tribes Of Israel
Season 27 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/2000
At the heart of Jewish tradition lies the haunting mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ever since their defeat and banishment by the Assyrians in 722 BC., the Lost Tribes fate has inspired countless claims to Jewish ancestry by groups scattered on every continent. But now, surprisingly, new advances in genetics are dispelling myth and fantasy, and raising a curtain on the forgotten reality of the dispersal that happened so many centuries ago. This story will follow the first attempt to use the new tests to investigate a seemingly improbable African candidate for a Lost Tribe. It will dramatize a scientific quest that leads from the gene labs of London to the remote bush country of Zimbabwe and the lunar-like desert wilderness of southern Yemen.
#5 - Japan's Secret Garden
Season 27 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/18/2000
The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands of years.
#6 - What's Up With The Weather?
Season 27 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/2000
In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st century: the truth about global warming.
#7 - Tales From The Hive
Season 27 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2000
In this NOVA program, our cinematographer literally filmed inside a hive and followed bees in flight to capture closeups of honeybee behavior.
#8 - The Vikings
Season 27 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/9/2000
In this two-hour special, NOVA presents a dramatic investigation of a people who were much more than axe-wielding pirates. It features stunning camerawork in Scandinavia and the far-flung countries that the Vikings penetrated, while historians and archaeologists present us with an image of the Vikings that goes far deeper than their savage stereotype. The latest research shows that they were canny merchants, expert shipbuilders, superb artisans, and bold colonizers of lands that lay beyond the edge of the known world.
#9 - Secrets Of Lost Empires: China Bridge
Season 27 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/29/2000
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents 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.
#10 - Secrets Of Lost Empires: Roman Bath
Season 27 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/22/2000
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians designs, builds, and tests a functioning Roman bath in the Turkish countryside.
#11 - Mystery Of The First Americans
Season 27 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/15/2000
In 1996, near Kennewick, Washington, a suspected murder victim is identified by forensic anthropologists as Caucasian - but turns out to be almost 10,000 years old. For fifty years our picture of prehistoric America has rested on the premise that the earliest inhabitants of the Americas were east Asians of mongoloid stock, the ancestors of today's Native Americans. But the discovery of the Kennewick Man, along with several other startling finds in recent years, has thrown that once widely accepted idea into question and revolutionized the science of paleo-anthropology. It has also embroiled scientists in a bitter conflict with Native American groups who want the scientific study of early Americans halted. Who and what do Kennewick Man and others represent? NOVA is following the efforts of paleo-anthropologists work to decode the story in the bones of people who died 10,000 years ago.
#12 - Secrets Of Lost Empires: Easter Island
Season 27 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2000
The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, showcases the efforts of a team of archeologists, engineers, and other experts to transport an Easter Island moai, or carved stone monolith, overland and successfully raise it onto a pedestal.
#13 - Trillion Dollar Bet
Season 27 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2000
The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earned its creators the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics.
#14 - Diamond Deception
Season 27 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2000
The film documents the efforts of researchers around the world to create synthetic diamonds, some of which have become so indistinguishable from natural diamonds as to fool experts.
#15 - Secrets Of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege
Season 27 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2000
In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, 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.
#16 - Lost On Everest
Season 27 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2000
The program chronicles a successful 1999 NOVA expedition to investigate the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on Everest in 1924. During this expedition, which included a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure, Mallory's body was found, though the mystery only deepened.
#17 - Dying To Be Thin
Season 27 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/12/2000
The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.
#18 - Garden Of Eden
Season 27 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/28/2000
The film takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islands scattered between India and Madagascar.
#19 - Holocaust On Trial
Season 27 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/31/2000
The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial
#20 - Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Season 27 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/2000
The film chronicles an expedition to study and retrieve parts of the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad, which sank off North Carolina only months after its famous battle with the CSS Virginia.
#21 - Runaway Universe
Season 27 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/21/2000
The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic cosmic patterns of galaxies, and grapple with the ultimate question: What is the fate of the universe?