Joseph Kony, the leader of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army, has managed to systematically terrorize and manipulate central Africans in order to stay in power for 26 years

On legendary Easter Island, scientists undertake a groundbreaking expedition: to map a vast cave system.

In history class, we're taught that the emancipation proclamation was so great for ending slavery. Just another textbook lie. Slavery continued to exist in America under the guise of another name when...

A national geographic documentary exploring the phenomenon that is guantanamo bay. (2010)

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Treating patients with life-threatening injuries is always a challenge. Now imagine handling a medical emergency at the height of the Iraq War, beset by heat, sand, and frequent enemy attacks.

Before global positioning systems, modern map making even before America was America the concept of longitude was just a dream. Without its guidance, navigation in the 1700s was both unpredictable and...

The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOVA tells the little-known wartime history of radar.

Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to save it from drowning. Environmentalists worry that the gates may destroy the fragile lagoon that s...

Foil to Bakelite Records, Steve Ainlay of Union College records onto a Wax Cylinder. -and a speech by Edison about the future.

Centenarian is a photo documentary about a 110 year old Kurdish woman named Feyruz and other connected stories of struggles and hope from her village in southeast Turkey. The inhabitants of Andaç vill...

The Black Death pandemic swept across Europe in the mid-14th century killing about half the population. It was caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. This strain of bacteria is still around tod...

Hope Realized, a short documentary film, explores how modern day poverty in Cambodia is rooted in a brutal war that ravaged the country for decades and tells the compelling story of a family, who were...

National Geographic looks into the hacker, however their are different degrees of hacker, and some have different goals than others which range from political activism, to do it for fun or the lulz, a...

In an ancient Mayan arena, enemies of notorious King Yax KÕuk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful contest, winners liveÑand losers lose their heads.

(1994) Nova travels to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Nova: Back to Chernobyl. Affecting some areas as far away as Northern Europe, the Ukrainian event released an unprecedented amo...

Oklahoma City, the UNABOMBER, the World Trade Center - these tragedies have thrust bombing into the national limelight. But such high profile events do not tell the whole story. They are part of a dis...

Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists who are developing new techniques to predict when volcanos will erupt and how violently.

NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water & electricity to the farms & cities of California, Nevada, and Arizona. The program exam...