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Battle Alert in the Gulf
Strategy makers, fighter pilots, Aegis cruiser captains, and fast-attack submarine crews contend with a hostile Iraq.

Beast of Loch Ness, The
Scientists employ state-of-the-art sonar and cameras in an attempt to locate the elusive Loch Ness Monster.

Decoding Nazi Secrets
Allied technologies developed at Britain's Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich and set the stage for today's computers.

Electric Heart
Pioneering surgeons test artificial hearts in the hope of saving the lives of people with coronary heart disease.

Escape!
Engineers learn from past disasters to make fires and car, plane, and ship accidents increasingly survivable.

Everest
Take a virtual climb of Mt. Everest through panoramic photography and explore the personalities, dangers, and history associated with the mountain.

Fall of the Leaning Tower
An international committee of engineers and architects race to prevent the toppling of Pisa's famous monument.

Island of the Spirits
On the island of Hokkaido in the far north of Japan lives an extraordinary spectrum of life.

Killer's Trail, The
Forensic scientists revisit the infamous Sheppard murder case of the 1950s in search of the true killer.

Mysteries of the Nile
Explore ancient Egypt through a stunning series of interactive panoramic photographs.

Submarines, Secrets and Spies
Explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wrecks of two Cold War-era nuclear submarines.

Surviving AIDS
Molecular biologists, immunologists, geneticists, and physicians pool their expertise in search of an AIDS vaccine.

Time Travel
Is time travel anything more than sci-fi fantasy? Leading physicists ponder building a time machine.

To The Moon
Relive the remarkable history of humankind's journeys to the moon.

Voyage of Doom
Nautical archeologists uncover the wrecked ship of 17th century French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle.