NOVA: Japan's Killer Quake DVD

In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. Japan's Killer Quake combines on-the-spot reporting, personal stories, compelling eyewitness videos, and exclusive helicopter footage for a unique look at the science behind the catastrophe.

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Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Power Surge: Are we finally on the brink of a clean energy revolution? DVD

Can emerging technology defeat global warming? NOVA travels the globe to reveal the surprising technologies that just might turn back the clock on climate change. Focusing on the latest and greatest innovations, including everything from artificial trees to green reboots of familiar technologies like coal and nuclear energy, NOVA asks: "Can our technology, which helped create this problem, now solve it?"

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Color: Yes
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Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space DVD

Hunting the Edge of Space, celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, and takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery, exploring the rich history of the telescope. Then NOVA turns its attention to a new generation of ever-larger telescopes, poised to reveal answers to longstanding questions about our universe, and, in turn, to raise new questions.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth: Can a Computer Win on JEOPARDY!? (Updated Version) DVD & Book - Save $5

Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, but scientists are edging closer with machines like "Watson," an IBM computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show JEOPARDY!, taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the show's most successful and celebrated contestants of all time. Includes "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything" hardcover book.

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NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth: Can a Computer Win on JEOPARDY!? (Updated Version) DVD

Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, but scientists are edging closer with machines like "Watson," an IBM computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show JEOPARDY!, taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the show's most successful and celebrated contestants of all time. This program is an updated version of the original broadcast, with additional content added.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Venom: Nature's Killer DVD

NOVA reveals how venom causes the body to shut down, arteries to bleed uncontrollably and limbs to go black and die. VENOM follows two scientists on their expeditions to track down and capture the planet's most deadly creatures with the hope of finding out how nature's deadliest cocktails could be medicine's brightest new hope.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: What's the Next Big Thing? DVD

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each episode of What's the Next Big Thing? He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Program episodes include: Social Robots; Robotic Cars; Detecting Earthquakes; Smart Grid; and Profile: Jay Keasling.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 5
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Making Stuff Blu-ray

Step behind the headlines as Making Stuff... dramatizes the human stories woven into the current wave of hi-tech breakthroughs. Hosted by the New York Times' lively technology correspondent David Pogue, each hour in this four-part series explores the talent, luck, and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough.

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Production Year: 2011
Length: 240 minutes
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Making Stuff DVD

Step behind the headlines as Making Stuff... dramatizes the human stories woven into the current wave of hi-tech breakthroughs. Hosted by the New York Times' lively technology correspondent David Pogue, each hour in this four-part series explores the talent, luck, and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 240 minutes on 2 Discs
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: Where Did We Come From? DVD

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each episode of Where Did We Come From? He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Program episodes include: Revealing the Origins of Life; Origins of the Solar System; Lice and Human Evolution; and Profile: Andre Fenton.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: Can We Live Forever? - New Technology for a Longer Life DVD

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each episode of Can We Live Forever? He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Program episodes include: Can My Car Live Forever--; Replacing Body Parts; Can We Slow Aging--; Profile: Jason Leigh; and Human Hibernation.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 5
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: How Smart are Animals? DVD

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each episode of How Smart are Animals? He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Program episodes include: How Smart are Dogs--; How Smart are Dolphins--; How Smart is an Octopus--; and Profile: Irene Pepperberg & Alex.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: How Does the Brain Work? DVD

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each episode of How Does the Brain Work? He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Program episodes include: Magic and the Brain; Can Machines Think Like Us--; Magnetic Mind Control; and Profile: David Eagleman.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 4
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA scienceNOW: Can We Make it to Mars? DVD

This NOVA scienceNOW poses the question - Can we Make it to Mars? - and the episodes explore it from different angles. Program episodes include: Space Dangers; Next-Generation Space Suits; Space Food; Profile: Vandi Verma; and Plasma Rockets.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 5
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Deadliest Earthquakes DVD

NOVA follows a team of US geologists as they first enter Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 epic earthquake, hunting for crucial evidence that will help them determine what the risks are of a new killer quake. Could this work one day lead to a breakthrough in predicting quakes before they happen? NOVA investigates intriguing new leads in its gripping investigation of a deadly scientific conundrum.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2011
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor DVD

NOVA looks into new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II, the sinking of the USS Arizona. It has been thought that the Arizona was sunk by a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft, but the discovery of five Japanese midget subs just outside Pearl Harbor raises new questions about the Arizona's final hours. Could these tiny but lethal subs have played a crucial and previously unsuspected part in the day's tragic events?

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Emergency Mine Rescue DVD

With special access to the site of the San Jos�, Chile, mine, the mining engineers and the miners' families, NOVA chronicles the miners' 69-day ordeal and the work of a global team of engineers who struggled tirelessly around the clock in a desperate bid to bring the trapped miners safely to the surface.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Quest for Solomon's Mines DVD

Inspired by the Biblical account of the splendor of his temples and palaces countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines. Now join NOVA and National Geographic as they embark on two groundbreaking expeditions to expose new clues buried in the pockmarked desert of Jordan and seek to reveal the source of the great wealth that powered the first mighty Biblical kingdoms.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Secrets of Stonehenge DVD

Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain, in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? A new generation of researchers is tackling these questions, finding important clues in the landscape surrounding Stonehenge -one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric structures in the world. The story of Stonehenge is being rewritten.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

NOVA: Crash of Flight 447 DVD

On June 1st, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives. Using expert testimony, messages transmitted by the doomed plane's computer system, and multi-layered CGI weather reconstructions, NOVA pieces together the events leading up to the disaster and provides a forensic view of crucial events seen from all angles to reveal what really happened on Flight 447.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2010
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

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NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth: Can a Computer Win on JEOPARDY!? (Updated Version) DVD & Book - Save $5

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