Tue, Jan 4, 2000
Amazingly up-close footage filmed with specially developed macro lenses brings the viewer the most intimate and spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony. Fly along on the high-speed mid-air "wedding flight" of a drone and his queen. Realize that it takes nectar from 10 million flowers to create a single liter of honey. Witness the life-and-death battle between a pair of freshly emerged rival queens. Amaze to the attack of a bee eater bird's feast on a hive's foraging fleet.
Tue, Oct 24, 2000
This is the story of an armored combat vessel that opened up an entirely new chapter in naval warfare. At a critical moment of the American Civil War in 1861, the Navy commissioned the USS Monitor to test a daring idea-that a mechanical fighting machine could inflict a crushing defeat on Confederate forces. Not long after its legendary confrontation with the ironclad Merrimack, the Monitor sank in stormy seas off Cape Hatteras. Almost a century and a half after these stirring events, NOVA's cameras follow the Navy's risky efforts to salvage the secrets of the Monitor as it lies rusting on the ocean bottom.