NOVA
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NOVA

7.0/10 1974 53 Seasons 1020 Episodes Returning Series

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

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Season 29 Episodes

S29E1
E1
Search for a Safe Cigarette
55 min 2001

The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.

S29E2
E2
18 Ways to Make a Baby
55 min 2001

The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.

S29E3
E3
Secrets of the Mind
55 min 2001

This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain wo…

S29E4
E4
Sex: Unknown
55 min 2001

The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.

S29E5
E5
Russia's Nuclear Warriors
55 min 2001

NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from t…

S29E6
E6
Bioterror
55 min 2001

The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple wit…

S29E7
E7
Life's Greatest Miracle
55 min 2001

A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microima…

S29E8
E8
Methuselah Tree
55 min 2001

Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, th…

S29E9
E9
Flying Casanovas
55 min 2001

The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when c…

S29E10
E10
Death Star
55 min 2002

The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.

S29E11
E11
Neanderthals on Trial
55 min 2002

The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.

E12
Fireworks
55 min 2002
S29E13
E13
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
55 min 2002

The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big on…

S29E14
E14
The Missing Link
55 min 2002

A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the anc…

S29E15
E15
Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
55 min 2002

In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and…

S29E16
E16
Why the Towers Fell
55 min 2002

Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?

S29E17
E17
Fire Wars
55 min 2002

In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as th…

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