NOVA "First Flower"
In the search for answers, NOVA takes viewers on a spectacular journey of discovery to a remote mountain region of China, to explore our fascination with flowers and solve the puzzle of their beginnings.

NOVA "A Walk to Beautiful"
This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, the women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame.

NOVA "Deadly Ascent"
Alaska's Mount McKinley, commonly referred to as Denali, is the highest and coldest peak in North America, and one of the deadliest mountains on earth.

NOVA "Lord of the Ants"
Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man.

NOVA "Master of the Killer Ants"
In the Mandaras Mountains of northern Cameroon lives the Mofu - an ancient tribe that shares its homes and crops with insects in a mutual balance of survival.

NOVA "Newton's Dark Secrets"
Often hailed as both the first modern scientist and the last of the ancient magicians, Isaac Newton reduced nature's chaos to a single set of mathematical laws.

NOVA "Secrets of the Samurai Sword"
English archers had their longbows, Old West sheriffs had their six-guns, but samurai warriors had the most fearsome weapon of all: the razor-sharp katana, or samurai sword, capable of slicing through a row of warriors at one swoop.

NOVA "Car of the Future"
How will the car of the future be powered? Will it run on hydrogen, batteries, ethanol, or some as-yet undiscovered technology?