Jay O. Sanders

Retrace Einstein's thought experiments as NOVA reveals the simple but powerful ideas that reshaped our understanding of gravity, illuminating the theory of general relativity—and Einstein's brilliance—as never before.

For 45 centuries, the Great Sphinx has cast its enigmatic gaze over Egypt's Giza Plateau. The biggest and oldest statue in a land of colossal ancient monuments, its scale is staggering. This strange half-human, half-lion image has inspired countless fantastic theories about its origins. How was it built, and who or what does it represent?

In the heart of Lithuania, a Holocaust secret lies buried. A team of archaeologists probes the ruins of a Nazi death camp to find the truth behind tales of a tunnel dug by desperate Jewish prisoners and their daring escape.

The Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that homo sapiens came to inhabit. Join an international team of scientists as they climb to the world's highest tombs to unearth secrets of the people who settled this extreme environment.

From PBS - It is the most famous painting in the world, created by the hand of a genius, marveled at by millions every year in the Louvre in Paris. But could there be a second Mona Lisa? In 1913, an interesting portrait surfaced. It depicts a younger Mona Lisa in a slightly different setting and it's left unfinished: the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa." Is this the earlier version? There are only two contemporary references to the painting from the 15th century and both suggest da Vinci could have painted the woman in the masterpiece more than once. Now, using sophisticated scientific analysis, scientists will test both paintings to determine whether there is another Mona Lisa. Is the Mona Lisa the world knows so well the original version? Or did Leonardo da Vinci paint an earlier version of the iconic portrait? Or is it a cunning forgery painted by a fraud?

Broken Places explores why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others thrive. By revisiting children we profiled decades ago, we’re able to dramatically illustrate how early trauma shaped their lives as adults.

A chance encounter between two modern visionaries results in a collaboration that pushes the boundaries of music and our idea of the possible –a piece in which the player must perform orchestra and solo parts simultaneously on a violin.

Tough female private eye `Vic' Warshawski dates a former ice hockey star, whose body is later pulled out of Lake Michigan, leaving her to look after his 13-year-old daughter. Warshawski finds herself not only tracking down a murderer, but protecting the child from the local mobsters.

In four compelling stories, we watch the scheming process of a murder, a city cop, a drug deal gone drastically wrong, and one brave stand.

At a secluded French chateau, a young news anchor is trapped between plotting nationalists and a mother seeking revenge for her son's death.

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

After returning home from the war, a veteran searches for a place to belong and finds it in a small community, home to a legendary uncatchable fish.

A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch-trials.

The story of the 27th Panzers, a German combat regiment composed of prisoners who are sent on a doomed mission to destroy a Soviet train during WWII.

An ice-age threatens the world, and a scientist tries to save humanity.

A couple who are in serious trouble with the IRS get the culture shock of their lives when they pretend to be an Amish couple in Pennsylvania.

Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendors of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

Crippled by a career he never wanted and a dream left behind, a powerful lawyer grapples with whether to return to his hometown to pursue happiness.

Five Western civilians endure imprisonment in Beirut as their families fight to free them in this docudrama chronicling a hostage crisis in the 1980s.

Tony Award-winning playwright and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with HUNGRY, the first in a new three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, HUNGRY places us in the center of the Gabriel’s kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby.