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"In the movie Jurassic Park, Richard Attenborough played the role of an entrepreneur who extracted dinosaur DNA from the blood of mosquitoes trapped in ancient amber. Now his real-life brother, David Attenborough, explores that intriguing dinosaur DNA possibility and a host of other secrets suspended in time from millions of years ago.

"The final phase of the Pacific war during World War II saw a terrible new tactic: massed kamikaze attacks on American ships by Japanese planes. But the biggest kamikaze attack of all was the suicidal mission of the super battleship Yamato, the largest, most advanced warship of the day. In this program, NOVA joins an international team exploring the grave of this magnificent vessel to learn the secrets of her design, her final mission, and the violent events that brought her down.

Interweaving biography and social history, The Most Dangerous Woman in America tells the extraordinary story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary. She gained this notoriety by being the first person in North America to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Despite her indignant protests of innocence, she was incarcerated for years on an island in New York’s East River. Mary Mallon’s saga throws into vivid relief the emerging science of public health and the social, ethical, and legal dilemmas it posed to its pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century.

Nothing is more fascinating to us than, well, us. Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot in the trenches as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today.

From PBS and NOVA - When World War I began in 1914, the air forces of the opposing nations consisted of handfuls of rickety biplanes from which pilots occasionally took pot shots at one another with rifles.

With dazzling visuals and the latest discoveries, NOVA’s five-part series captures moments of high drama when the cosmos changed forever–featuring a cast list of rogue planets, colliding galaxies, and black holes more massive than a billion suns.

Get ready for a (literally) breathtaking trek up Mt. Everest, from Base Camp at 17,600 feet; through the chilling, corpse-strewn Death Zone; to the very pinnacle of the the Earth, five and a half miles above sea level. For those brave souls who survive the harrowing climb to the top of the world, it is a transformative experience. But can the excruciating ascent through frigid cold, blasting wind, blinding sun, and severe lack of oxygen'cause permanent, damaging changes to the human brain and body?

They are so bright, they are a billion billion times more luminous than the sun. They are so distant, their light takes billions of years just to reach Earth. These amazingly violent explosions-or death stars-may even have the power to eradicate life in an entire galaxy. See how these celestial phenomena can teach us about the dawn of the universe. And hear a controversial theory of how a gamma ray burst somewhere in our own galaxy could destroy life on Earth.

Take an astounding look at the red planet in this interplanetary adventure that picks up where the acclaimed film Mars Dead or Alive loft off. From the white knuckle landings of the mars rovers Sprint and opportunity through months of frustrating setbacks and elating discoveries welcome to mars captures the gripping drama and the breathtaking images of the most significant mission events.Mission control and its two robotic explores face a daunting task find proof that liquid water the essential ingredient of life of life once existed on Mars just days into the mission euphoria turns to despair as Spirit suddenly stops communicating with NASA. With the mission on the line restoring communications with the rover becomes a never-shredding ordeal before the problem is solved. Then opportunity serendipitously lands near a scientifically valuable rock outcrop that provides crucial evidence allowing NASA to announce solid proof that Mars was once awash in water.Through unprecedented access welcome to mars presents a compelling inside story of triumph technical ingenuity and emotional drama packed with stunning images from an alien world.