Documentary about the life of American industrialist Henry Ford. Using Newsreels, dramatic films and documentaries to tell the story of his life from boyhood until his death in 1947.
1. In the Event of Catastrophe
Aired: Jan 4, 1978Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes....
2. Blueprints in the Bloodstream
Aired: Jan 11, 1978Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. N...
Aired: Jan 18, 1978 It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blo...
Aired: Jan 25, 1978 Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines t...
5. BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest
Aired: Feb 1, 1978Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the futu...
Aired: Feb 15, 1978 In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies....
Aired: Feb 22, 1978 The century old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensi...
8. The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
Aired: Mar 1, 1978A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the...
Aired: Mar 8, 1978 NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has b...
Aired: Mar 22, 1978 Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in A...
Aired: Mar 29, 1978 In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman,...
Aired: Apr 12, 1978 NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life...
Aired: Apr 19, 1978 Documentary about the life of American industrialist Henry Ford. Using Newsre...
Aired: May 3, 1978 Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some ...
Aired: May 10, 1978 When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for ...
Aired: May 24, 1978 In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, som...
Aired: May 31, 1978 For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the wo...
Aired: Jun 7, 1978 NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disea...
Aired: Jun 14, 1978 Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages...
20. Alaska: The Closing Frontier
Aired: Jun 21, 1978In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Teleph...
21. Alaska: The Closing Frontier
Aired: Jun 28, 1978Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of Am...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
