Every 48 years in the remote Indian state of Mizoram, an indigenous species of bamboo blooms, spurring an explosion in the rat population which feeds off the bamboo's fruit. The rats run amok, destroying crops and precipitating crippling famine. NOVA investigates the botanical mystery of why the bamboo flowers and why the rats attack with clockwork precision every half-century.

Increasingly frustrated by his role campaigning for war bonds, Basilone convinces the Marines to allow him to train troops headed for combat. Transferred to Camp Pendleton, he enjoys a whirlwind romance with an initially reluctant female Marine, Lena Riggi. But the couple know they are living on borrowed time, as Basilone is soon to take part in the Marine landing on Iwo Jima.

A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

S01E08 Iwo Jima
Increasingly frustrated by his role campaigning for war bonds, Basilone convinces the Marines to allow him to train troops headed for combat. Transferred to Camp Pendleton, he enjoys a whirlwind romance with an initially reluctant female Marine, Lena Riggi. But the couple know they are living on borrowed time, as Basilone is soon to take part in the Marine landing on Iwo Jima.

Episode 1 – Guadalcanal / Leckie
Directly following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Seargent John Basilone ships out to fight the enemy somewhere in the Pacific, and a young journalist called Robert Leckie enlists in the Marine Corps. Sidney Phillips ships off to boot camp after saying farewell to his friend Eugene Sledge, who cannot go with him due to a heart murmur. Eight months later, Phillips and Leckie, having completed boot camp are sent to secure a airfield on Guadalcanal, and to help defend it against counterattack.

What happens when you mix wild and crazy co-eds with hypnotism? The wildest most unbridled party you’ve ever seen! Get ready for all the unbelievable action on this month’s Jerry Springer Uncensored: Hypnotizing Hotties. Jerry’s brought some of the most beautiful ladies to his stage to be hypnotized. These sexy sweethearts shed all their inhibitions (and clothing) under the influence of our hypnotist. We’ll also re-visit one crazy couple from last month that couldn’t be held down to just one Pay-Per-View. Add in all the wild stripper action you’ve come to expect and you’re in for one wild night!

On 3 September 1939, 25-year-old English aristocrat Unity Mitford walked into a Munich park and shot herself in the head. Distraught at the prospect of England declaring war on her beloved Fnhrer, Britain’s most notorious Nazi sympathiser seemed determined to make the ultimate act of fanatical devotion.

One of the six Mitford sisters – siblings surrounded by controversy and the cause of much fascination – Unity’s story has always been cloaked in secrecy and the source of decades of speculation. This film tells the extraordinary story of how Churchill’s cousin fell under Hitler’s spell and became one of his closest confidantes; spending five years with an astonishing ringside seat as he plotted global domination.

Unity’s suicide attempt failed, and the programme charts her recovery, funded by Hitler himself, and her mysterious return to Britain in early 1940. The film unravels the rumours and looks at the myths that have always surrounded Unity – did she have a physical relationship with Hitler? Was she a British spy, targeted by the Gestapo? And what lay behind her convalescence in a discreet English clinic?