In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.

Film revealing how political ambition fuelled the Windscale fire of 1957 and then dictated that the heroes of Windscale be made the scapegoats.

NOVA review of the future of nuclear Power after Fukishima

David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.

In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority.

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

十六岁的格温·戴维斯深爱着她与祖父在美丽的威尔士山区养育的马群。然而，祖父去世后，她的叔叔陷入了两难境地：要么把农场卖给贪婪的土地开发商，要么让格温继承农场——而这一选择会揭开他过去悲剧的伤疤。

Five childhood friends from a small Montenegrin town have gradually moved away to different corners of the former Yugoslavia, yet they remain in contact, aware that their long-time friendship continues to play a fundamental role in their lives.

Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.

When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.