The Best Episodes of NOVA Season 28
Every episode of NOVA Season 28 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NOVA Season 28!
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Season 28 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "NOVA" season 28 is "Lincoln's Secret Weapon", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Kirk Wolfinger and written by Jonathan Wickham. "Lincoln's Secret Weapon" aired on 10/24/2000 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Holocaust on Trial".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Season 28 Episode 1 - 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.
Director: Kirk Wolfinger
Writer: Jonathan Wickham
7.9/10 11 votes#2 - Holocaust on Trial
Season 28 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/2000
The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial
Director: Leslie Woodhead
Writer: Leslie Woodhead
8.2/10 15 votes#3 - Hitler's Lost Sub
Season 28 Episode 3 - 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
Director: Kirk Wolfinger
Writer: Rushmore DeNooyer
7.4/10 36 votes#4 - Runaway Universe
Season 28 Episode 4 - 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?
Director: Thomas Lucas
Writer: Julia Cort, Thomas Lucas, Michael Winship
7.0/10 9 votes#5 - Garden of Eden
Season 28 Episode 5 - 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.
Director: Miles Barton, Marti Louw
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#6 - Dying to Be Thin
Season 28 Episode 6 - 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.
Director: Larkin McPhee
Writer: Larkin McPhee
NaN/10 0 votes#7 - Japan's Secret Garden
Season 28 Episode 7 - 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.
Director: Shinichi Murata, Tetsunori Kikuchi
Writer: David Attenborough, Satoko Saito, Jeremy Hogarth
NaN/10 0 votes#8 - Sultan's Lost Treasure
Season 28 Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/2001
The program follows a French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck off the coast of Brunei.
Director: Stephen Sweigart
Writer: Stephen Sweigart
7.3/10 25 votes#9 - Vanished!
Season 28 Episode 9 - Aired 1/30/2001
The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that crashed in the Andes in 1947.
Director: Sarah Holt
Writer: Jonathan Renouf
8.0/10 12 votes#10 - Nazi Prison Escape
Season 28 Episode 10 - Aired 2/6/2001
The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.
Director: Adam English, Henry Chancellor, Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, Chris Durlacher
Writer: Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, Chris Durlacher
7.6/10 14 votes#11 - Lost King of the Maya
Season 28 Episode 11 - Aired 2/13/2001
The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Copán, a Classic Maya site in northern Honduras.
Director: Gary Glassman
Writer: Gary Glassman
NaN/10 0 votes#12 - The Cancer Warrior
Season 28 Episode 12 - Aired 2/27/2001
For decades Dr. Judah Folkman struggled against the grain of many in the cancer research community in his quest to pioneer a novel form of cancer treatment. In 1960, when he was a young surgical resident, Folkman discovered a startling secret about how cancer grows, which he called angiogenesis. It was a clue he would pursue for the next 40 years. "Cancer Warrior" tells the incredible saga of his personal dedication in a race to defeat one of humanity's most invincible foes.
Director: Nancy Linde
Writer: Nancy Linde
7.9/10 44 votes#13 - Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor (1)
Season 28 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/2001
In "Tattooed Doctor," the first hour of NOVA's "Survivor M.D." series, emergency-room physician Dr. Tom Tarter eloquently describes some of the challenges and rewards of emergency medicine.
Director: Michael Barnes
Writer: Michael Barnes
7.2/10 9 votes#14 - Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions (2)
Season 28 Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/2001
In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of training to be a fully qualified doctor. Now all but one of them (who switched careers) are out in the world in high-powered medical careers, trying to balance the demands of work, families, and personal lives, as NOVA reports on Survivor MD, which airs in three one-hour segments.
Director: Michael Barnes
Writer: Michael Barnes
7.0/10 7 votes#15 - Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds (3)
Season 28 Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/2001
In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of training to be a fully qualified doctor. Now all but one of them (who switched careers) are out in the world in high-powered medical careers, trying to balance the demands of work, families, and personal lives, as NOVA reports on Survivor MD, which airs in three one-hour segments.
Director: Michael Barnes
Writer: Michael Barnes
8.4/10 11 votes#16 - Cracking the Code of Life
Season 28 Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/2001
This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the race to capture one of the biggest prizes in scientific history: the complete letter-by-letter sequence of genetic information that defines human life -- the human genome.
Director: Elizabeth Arledge
Writer: Elizabeth Arledge, Julia Cort
7.6/10 26 votes#17 - Harvest of Fear
Season 28 Episode 17 - Aired 4/24/2001
A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed to produce vitamin A, preventing millions of African children from going blind. Other plants are modified to produce plastic or pharmaceuticals. While many see these as wondrous advancements, others fear they could spawn serious new threats to human health, a loss of genetic viability in our most important crop species, and other signficant and perhaps unforeseen problems. In "Harvest of Fear," NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to explore the growing controversy over genetically modified agriculture.
Director: Jon Palfreman
Writer: Jon Palfreman