video recordings for people with visual disabilities

This program explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals in these difficult times.

Examines some of the new and resurgent diseases that pose a threat to global public health in the early twenty-first century including AIDS and avian flu, and discusses the urgent need to strengthen global public health systems.

Goes inside the intensive care unit of one of New York's largest hospitals to examine the reality of modern, medicalized death and offer a portrait of patients who face the prospect of dying in ways they might not have imagined.

Examines examples of remote-control aviation as used in spy technology.

Describes the bidding war between Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, a technologically advanced X-Plane.

Nova takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of pioneering mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical and artistic innovation, stretching from the ecology of the rainforest to fashion design.

Follows expert lizard hunter Dr. Eric Pianka as he tracks the elusive monitor lizard, the largest lizard to walk the planet.

Hurricane Katrina presents astonishing storm footage, suspenseful eyewitness testimony, and a penetrating analysis of what went wrong. Viewers relive the storm through the eyes of survivors and the stories of top engineers, hurricane experts, and emergency officials as they grappled with the arrival of the storm and its traumatic aftermath.

Documents the artistic and architectural marvels of Gothic cathedrals, which consumed the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking a hundred years to build, and crafted from just hand tools and stone.

Documents the efforts of scientists to discover clues about rising sea levels through a project in Antarctica that uses a state-of-the-art drilling probe known as ANDRILL.