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NOVA (1974)

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NOVA is a documentary series that began airing in 1974. It is a production aimed at increasing viewers' knowledge levels by conveying developments, discoveries, and innovations in the fields of science and technology. The series s…

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NOVA (1974)

Overview

NOVA is a documentary series that began airing in 1974. It is a production aimed at increasing viewers' knowledge levels by conveying developments, discoveries, and innovations in the fields of science and technology. The series stands out for presenting scientific events and theories in an accessible language, while also offering a visually impressive experience. During the period it aired, it heightened interest in scientific subjects and inspired many viewers.

Subject Matter

The central theme of NOVA is scientific discoveries and their effects on human life. In its various episodes, the series covers a wide range of topics, from astronomy to biology, from the physical sciences to environmental issues. Each episode focuses on a specific scientific subject, offering an in-depth examination. For example, topics such as the mysteries of the universe, the discovery of DNA, or climate change are conveyed to viewers through scientific methods and research. In this way, the series not only enables viewers to gain knowledge but also contributes to the development of their scientific thinking skills.

Genre and Tone

NOVA is a production in the documentary genre. The series is presented with an educational and informative tone, aiming to address scientific subjects in accessible language. Thanks to its fluent narration and rich visuals, it captures viewers' attention while offering an experience that sparks curiosity. In addition to an academic perspective, the series is enriched with stories that viewers can emotionally connect with. As a result, viewers not only gain information but also develop a passion for and understanding of scientific subjects.

Duration and Viewing Experience

NOVA generally has a runtime of about 60 minutes per episode. This duration provides sufficient time to deliver in-depth information to viewers. The series enriches the viewing experience with impressive cinematography and compelling music. As viewers ask questions about the topics presented in each episode, the answers provided satisfy their sense of curiosity. Suitable for both individual viewing and educational use, the series offers an enjoyable experience for science enthusiasts and general audiences alike.

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StatusReturning Series
CountryUnited States of America
LanguageEnglish
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  1. The Making Of A Natural History Film · 03.03.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problem…
  2. Where Did the Colorado Go? · 10.03.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of Calif…
  3. Whales, Dolphins, and Men · 17.03.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
  4. The Search For Life · 24.03.1974 · 55 dk
    Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth …
  5. Last of the Cuiva · 31.03.1974 · 55 dk
    How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misu…
  6. Strange Sleep · 07.04.1974 · 55 dk
    Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disor…
  7. The Crab Nebula · 14.04.1974 · 55 dk
    In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying sta…
  8. Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation · 21.04.1974 · 55 dk
    Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that …
  9. Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor? · 28.04.1974 · 55 dk
    The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedure…
  10. The First Signs Of Washoe · 05.05.1974 · 55 dk
    Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn…
  11. The Case of the Midwife Toad · 12.05.1974 · 55 dk
    When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purp…
  12. Fusion: The Energy of Promise · 19.05.1974 · 55 dk
    Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the p…
  13. The Mystery Of The Anasazi · 26.05.1974 · 55 dk
    Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest…
Sezon 2 · 17 bölüm
  1. Why Do Birds Sing? · 03.11.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.
  2. How Much Do You Smell? · 10.11.1974 · 55 dk
    Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for example, the entire economy of an ant's nest is organized by…
  3. The Hunting Of The Quark · 17.11.1974 · 55 dk
    Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused nightmare of particles. NOVA looks at thi…
  4. The Secrets Of Sleep · 24.11.1974 · 55 dk
    Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some people sleep for only a few minutes a night, and function perfe…
  5. Inside the Golden Gate · 01.12.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francisco Bay works: its physics, its chemistry and its biology.
  6. The Men Who Painted Caves · 08.12.1974 · 55 dk
    Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate business of survival to paint pictures in …
  7. Red Sea Coral · 15.12.1974 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea, who for several years have been studying the crown-of-thor…
  8. War From the Air · 05.01.1975 · 55 dk
  9. What Time is Your Body? · 12.01.1975 · 55 dk
    Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worsetimes for work, good times for sex drives …
  10. The Rise And Fall Of DDT · 19.01.1975 · 55 dk
    Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the insecticide, but NOVA dares to ask. Tracing…
  11. Take the World From Another Point of View · 02.02.1975 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnacle of his career—a Nobel prizewinner; and Richard Lewontin, …
  12. The Lysenko Affair · 09.02.1975 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how it affected plant genetic research in the USSR.
  13. The Tuaregs · 16.02.1975 · 55 dk
    High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his family: children, grandchildren, cousins and a few former sl…
  14. The Plutonium Connection · 09.03.1975 · 55 dk
    How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackmail weapon of unprecedented power in the…
  15. The Other Way · 16.03.1975 · 55 dk
    Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, who thinks that enough is enough; that…
  16. The Lost World Of The Maya · 30.03.1975 · 55 dk
    For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central America. Discovered and finally destroyed by the Spanish Con…
  17. Will The Fishing Have to Stop? · 06.04.1975 · 55 dk
    Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage. But in 1972 the total world fish catch dropped. NOVA explore…
Sezon 3 · 20 bölüm
  1. Predictable Disaster · 04.01.1976 · 55 dk
    It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful predictions have already been made in the United States; and the NOVA crew was present and fi…
  2. Joey · 11.01.1976 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic since birth. Joey has lived most of his life in institutions, unable to communicate…
  3. Meditation and the Mind · 18.01.1976 · 55 dk
    What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressman Richard Nolas have in common? They all practice a ritual called TM—Transcendental…
  4. The Planets · 25.01.1976 · 55 dk
    The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the Solar System. Beginning in 1961 with a Russian spacecraft fly…
  5. A Desert Place · 01.02.1976 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minutes before—of a pair o…
  6. A Small Imperfection · 08.02.1976 · 55 dk
    Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congenital abnormality of the central nervous system. NOVA explores the mystery of what ca…
  7. Ninety Degrees Below · 15.02.1976 · 55 dk
    There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freezing waters are so bitter there that a fish has been discovered to have developed it…
  8. The Race for the Double Helix · 07.03.1976 · 55 dk
    Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and his ex-colleague Francis Cric…
  9. The Renewable Tree · 07.03.1976 · 55 dk
    Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The paper packs, napkins, paper cups and packing used by McDonald's gobble up 315 square …
  10. The Williamsburgh File · 14.03.1976 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glimpse of the lifestyles of the founders of this country, compl…
  11. The Overworked Miracle · 21.03.1976 · 55 dk
    Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding their medical value. NOVA examines the problem of resistance to antibiotics in the b…
  12. The Transplant Experiment · 11.04.1976 · 55 dk
    Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart surgeon. NOVA explores those extraordinary days in 1968-69 w…
  13. The Underground Movement · 18.04.1976 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worms down to the myriad of micro-organisms that make soil the most complex substrate f…
  14. Hunters of the Seal · 02.05.1976 · 55 dk
    NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of life and what happens when Western civilization is imposed upon them.
  15. Benjamin · 09.05.1976 · 55 dk
    Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first year of life provides the backbone of this revealing NOVA about early child developmen…
  16. The Women Rebel · 23.05.1976 · 55 dk
    Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole attitude of the male-dominated medical profession towards "women's issues" and, ab…
  17. Death of a Disease · 06.06.1976 · 55 dk
    As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimated two or three million. Experts now believe that the disease…
  18. Inside the Shark · 13.06.1976 · 55 dk
    The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really such a barbarian? NOVA looks at the lifestyle of this remarkable survivor from the da…
  19. The Genetic Chance · 20.06.1976 · 55 dk
    Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety of defects in unborn babies. NOVA focuses on the ethical question that must be con…
  20. The Case of the Bermuda Triangle · 27.06.1976 · 55 dk
    Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off of Florida, known as the Ber…
Sezon 4 · 19 bölüm
  1. Hitler's Secret Weapon · 05.01.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on television.
  2. The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs · 12.01.1977 · 55 dk
    If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle together, never mind di…
  3. What Price Coal? · 19.01.1977 · 55 dk
    What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, industry, and the victims.
  4. The Sunspot Mystery · 02.02.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between weather patterns and th…
  5. The Plastic Prison · 09.02.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.
  6. Incident at Brown's Ferry · 23.02.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which came very close to dev…
  7. Bye Bye Blackbird · 02.03.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.
  8. The Pill for the People · 09.03.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progesterone.
  9. The Gene Engineers · 16.03.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research
  10. The Human Animal · 23.03.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically determined.
  11. The Wolf Equation · 30.03.1977 · 55 dk
    In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Although the area is roamed by the Western Arcti…
  12. The Dawn of the Solar Age · 20.04.1977 · 55 dk
    Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial power. NOVA looks at…
  13. The Business of Extinction · 20.04.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on vanishing wildlife.
  14. The Red Planet · 27.04.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory that the planet could support life. Questio…
  15. Tongues of Men (1) · 11.05.1977 · 55 dk
    In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering confusion of languages came about.
  16. Tongues of Men (2) · 18.05.1977 · 55 dk
    In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of language and asks if the growing accepta…
  17. Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist · 01.06.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.
  18. Across the Silent Barrier · 22.06.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman reco…
  19. The New Healers · 29.06.1977 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United States.
Sezon 5 · 21 bölüm
  1. In The Event of Catastrophe · 04.01.1978 · 55 dk
    Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
  2. The Green Machine · 11.01.1978 · 55 dk
    Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth hormones, responses …
  3. Blueprints in the Bloodstream · 18.01.1978 · 55 dk
    It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA looks at th…
  4. One Small Step · 25.01.1978 · 55 dk
    Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through the triumph of the Apo…
  5. The Final Frontier · 01.02.1978 · 55 dk
    Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, including the possibility…
  6. BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest · 15.02.1978 · 55 dk
    In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficult to capture on film…
  7. Trial of Denton Cooley · 22.02.1978 · 55 dk
    In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his patients died after…
  8. The Great Wine Revolution · 01.03.1978 · 55 dk
    A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with the predicting of mass…
  9. The Case of the Ancient Astronauts · 08.03.1978 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claims examined are: that…
  10. The Mind Machines · 22.03.1978 · 55 dk
    Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only suggest that in the…
  11. Icarus' Children · 29.03.1978 · 55 dk
    In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane …
  12. Still Waters · 12.04.1978 · 55 dk
    NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, from the microscopic p…
  13. Battle for the Acropolis · 19.04.1978 · 55 dk
    The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble structures built in t…
  14. The Road to Happiness. : The Life and Times of Henry Ford · 03.05.1978 · 55 dk
    Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposited in the National …
  15. Laser : Light of the 21st Century · 10.05.1978 · 55 dk
    When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fact research scientist…
  16. Insect Alternative · 24.05.1978 · 55 dk
    In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pesticides have backfire…
  17. The Desert's Edge · 31.05.1978 · 55 dk
    For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands of the international…
  18. The Tsetse Trap · 07.06.1978 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
  19. Memories From Eden · 14.06.1978 · 55 dk
    Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than about an animal and its…
  20. A Whisper from Space · 21.06.1978 · 55 dk
    In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals from space—…
  21. Alaska: The Closing Frontier · 28.06.1978 · 55 dk
    Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of Alaska as off-limit…
Sezon 6 · 19 bölüm
  1. Black Tide · 04.01.1979 · 55 dk
    On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, went aground off the coast of Brittany. Over the following day…
  2. Long Walk Of Fred Young · 11.01.1979 · 55 dk
    As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian languages Ute and Navajo, went to a medicine man when he was …
  3. A World Of Difference · 18.01.1979 · 55 dk
    In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter, Deborah, into a "box." The box was actually a climate-controlled crib designed for…
  4. Cashing In On The Ocean · 01.02.1979 · 55 dk
    The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated to be worth a staggering ten million dollars. These manganese nodules—the bumpy carp…
  5. Patterns From The Past · 08.02.1979 · 55 dk
    Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a life patterned on that of their ancestors thousands of years ago. NOVA takes a look…
  6. The Invisible Flame · 22.02.1979 · 55 dk
    Some day hydrogen may replace the gasoline that we are now using up so rapidly. NOVA looks at the potential of hydrogen as a zero-pollution fuel.
  7. The End Of The Rainbow · 01.03.1979 · 55 dk
    Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusion as a future energy source.
  8. The Beersheva Experiment · 08.03.1979 · 55 dk
    Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for medical education in the 1960s, there are now too many special…
  9. Einstein · 15.03.1979 · 55 dk
    One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most Americans. NOVA presents an insightful portrait of the man and his mind through rar…
  10. The Keys Of Paradise · 29.03.1979 · 55 dk
    Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would least expect to find them. Endorphins and their component enkep…
  11. A Plague on our Children · 02.10.1979 · 55 dk
    Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to our health and that of future generations? NOVA examines how toxic heribicides, Pes…
  12. Life on a Silken Thread · 09.10.1979 · 55 dk
    Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet their silken webs are among nature's loveliest creations. NOVA takes a close-look in sl…
  13. Sweet Solutions · 16.10.1979 · 55 dk
    NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical controversy.
  14. Race for the Gold · 30.10.1979 · 55 dk
    At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted gold medals, though their country is only the size of New Jersey. NOVA investigates…
  15. All Part of the Game · 06.11.1979 · 55 dk
    Thousands of amateur athletes are hurt every year, and many professional athletes suffer injuries that may mean the end of a career. NOVA looks at a new medical…
  16. India: Machinery of Hope · 20.11.1979 · 55 dk
    Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past. But there is another India—with thriving commercial centers, spotless research lab…
  17. The Bridge that Spanned the World · 04.12.1979 · 55 dk
    The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries old this year. It remains a monument to the Shropshire iron masters who built it, a…
  18. Termites to Telescopes · 11.12.1979 · 55 dk
    Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents this thoughtful and provocative commentary …
  19. Blindness: Five Points of Views · 18.12.1979 · 55 dk
    For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people struggling to save their threatened vision using drugs, surger…
Sezon 7 · 20 bölüm
  1. The Elusive Illness · 15.01.1980 · 55 dk
    Aborigines in Australia, woodchucks in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize in Stockholm and the gay community in New York City—what could possibly link such disparate…
  2. A is for Atom, B is for Bomb · 22.01.1980 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius and brilliant theoretician, and a man considered by some the …
  3. Living Machines · 05.02.1980 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the science of natural engineering and asks the basic questions: what makes a good design in nature and why did a particular plant or animal adopt…
  4. Portrait of a Killer · 19.02.1980 · 55 dk
    More than 40 million Americans are afflicted by cardiovascular disease. NOVA examines the new information on risk factors and possible prevention of heart attac…
  5. Umealit: The Whale Hunters · 04.03.1980 · 55 dk
    Whaling is an integral part of Eskimo life, and a major source of food; even so, conservationists are seeking to restrict the hunting of bowheads in Alaska.
  6. The Safety Factor · 11.03.1980 · 55 dk
    Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation really is. NOVA looks at some of the problems and experimental ef…
  7. A Mediterranean Prospect · 18.03.1980 · 55 dk
    Every year, millions of tourists converge on the Mediterranean's sunny coasts, lured by the prospect of bathing in clear, azure waters and basking in semi-tropi…
  8. Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland · 25.03.1980 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the amazing Jari project of the Amazon basin. Eleven years ago, 3.5 million acres of virgin jungle were bought by the reclusive billionaire, Danie…
  9. The Pinks and the Blues · 30.09.1980 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the shaping and molding of the male and female personality. From infancy through childhood, the program documents the impact of culture on the dev…
  10. The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian · 07.10.1980 · 55 dk
    In one of the first films ever to come out of modern China, NOVA sifts through clues that Chinese scientists have uncovered in their pursuit of particularly vir…
  11. The Sea Behind the Dunes · 14.10.1980 · 55 dk
    One year in the intricate life of a coastal lagoon unfolds in an hour's time when NOVA documents the fragile tidal ecosystem which supports the entire ocean.
  12. Do We Really Need the Rockes? · 28.10.1980 · 55 dk
    Locked in the shale of the Western Rocky Mountains is more oil than in the Middle East—more than enough to solve our dependence on foreign crude oil. But will s…
  13. The Big IF · 04.11.1980 · 55 dk
    Is interferon—known as IF in medical shorthand—the wonder drug and cure for cancer that some doctors claim? NOVA travels to London, Stockholm, Houston, San Fran…
  14. Voyager: Jupiter & Beyond · 11.11.1980 · 55 dk
    On Wednesday, 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 is expected to arrive at Saturn for a first time ever extensive close-up investigation of the majestic ringed planet. …
  15. The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor · 18.11.1980 · 55 dk
    Thomas Edison is the quintessential American hero, the Wizard whose inventions revolutionized modern living. But there was always more to Edison than met the ey…
  16. The Water Crisis · 25.11.1980 · 55 dk
    Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adirondack Mountains where acid rain is killing many high elevation lakes; to the Missi…
  17. Moving Still · 02.12.1980 · 55 dk
    NOVA tells the story of still and cine photography in science—from the extraordinary work of the pioneers in the early 1800s to how the ability to freeze time o…
  18. A Touch of Sensitivity · 09.12.1980 · 55 dk
    The exquisite sensitivity of touch cells in the human skin makes it possible for us to discriminate with precision the slightest changes in texture and pressure…
  19. The Red Deer of Rhum · 23.12.1980 · 55 dk
    The cuddly image of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become an integral part of the jollity of the Christmas season. NOVA takes a timely look at how real deer…
  20. It's About Time · 30.12.1980 · 55 dk
    Time—a concept which has baffled scientists and philosophers since time immemorial. Actor Dudley Moore hosts a funny, sobering and visually stunning quest for a…
Sezon 8 · 20 bölüm
  1. Doctors of Nigeria · 06.01.1981 · 55 dk
    Is the fagara root a match for the stethoscope? This program looks at the contributions of both traditional herbal medicine and western orthodox medicine to the…
  2. Message in the Rocks · 20.01.1981 · 55 dk
    This program explores clues gathered from ancient rocks and Meteorites in an attempt to piece together how our planet formed, what happened during its earliest …
  3. The Dead Sea Lives · 27.01.1981 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the Dead Sea. The lowest place on Earth, at 1400 feet below sea level, it is jointly owned by Israel and Jordan. If used properly it could become …
  4. Anatomy of a Volcano · 10.02.1981 · 55 dk
    When Mount St. Helens erupted earlier this year, it focused the attention of the whole world on the almost incredible destructive forces that volcanos can relea…
  5. The Science of Murder · 17.02.1981 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates what science can do in helping to solve murder—in understanding why it occurs, and how the rate might be reduced—and explores the work of peop…
  6. The Malady of Health Care · 24.02.1981 · 55 dk
    Health care is no longer two Aspirins and some chicken soup—it is a huge enterprise capable of amazing feats and costing billions of dollars. How can we afford …
  7. Beyond the Milky Way · 03.03.1981 · 55 dk
    Sophisticated instruments used by astronomers enable earthlings to see beyond what was once the cloudy barrier of the Milky Way, to a universe of perhaps 100 bi…
  8. The Asteroid and the Dinosaur · 10.03.1981 · 55 dk
    For 150 million years, non-avian dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they suddenly vanished, along with a great deal of the planet's anim…
  9. Animal Olympians · 17.03.1981 · 55 dk
    The beauty, endurance, and raw power of animals in the wild are captured on film as NOVA juxtaposes Olympic athletes performing feats which have parallels in th…
  10. Resolution on Saturn · 25.08.1981 · 55 dk
    It's over 300 years since Galileo turned his new telescope on Saturn and first saw its spectacular rings. NOVA shows the beauty and new mysteries discovered by …
  11. Computers, Spies and Private Lives · 27.09.1981 · 55 dk
    NOVA reports on the potential danger of modern Computers that gather "routine" information about our daily lives as we buy things, go to the hospital, or make d…
  12. Why America Burns · 04.10.1981 · 55 dk
    More people die in fires in the US than in any other industrialized country. In an alarming report that challenges the complacency of the US fire prevention est…
  13. The Great Violin Mystery · 11.10.1981 · 55 dk
    A great secret lies locked inside the master Violins created by Italian craftsmen like Antonio Stradivari in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now, a Wisconsin physi…
  14. Cosmic Fire · 18.10.1981 · 55 dk
    A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more violent than ever ima…
  15. Locusts: War Without End · 25.10.1981 · 55 dk
    Called the "teeth of the wind" by those who have battled them for centuries, locusts continue to plague hundreds of millions of people. Rare desert rains transf…
  16. Did Darwin Get It Wrong? · 01.11.1981 · 55 dk
    The controversy which exploded a century ago when Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" is erupting again with new facts and emotion. NOVA explores c…
  17. Artists in the Lab · 15.11.1981 · 55 dk
    Many were delighted by the extraordinary special effects in movies like "2001" and "Star Wars," but few realized how their magic relied on technologies as futur…
  18. Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas · 22.11.1981 · 55 dk
    You are not alone! Like it or not, every human being and virtually every living creature is, in a sense, owned and operated by legions of prehistoric organisms,…
  19. City Spaces, Human Places · 29.11.1981 · 55 dk
    William H. Whyte's insightful and humorous look at city parks, plazas and Streets, and the people who use them. Whyte shows the remarkable research he did over …
  20. Twins · 06.12.1981 · 55 dk
    Ever thought what it's like having your mirror image talk back to you? It can be an everyday occurrence for identical Twins. NOVA tells the incredible story of …
Sezon 9 · 19 bölüm
  1. Salmon on the Run · 10.01.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the fishing industry—and…
  2. Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy · 17.01.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy from the start, presen…
  3. Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson · 24.01.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning birdwatching int…
  4. The Hunt for the Legion Killer · 31.01.1982 · 55 dk
    One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in Philadelphia in 1976: …
  5. Finding a Voice · 07.02.1982 · 55 dk
    What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confine…
  6. The Television Explosion · 14.02.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experiment, the array of new…
  7. Life: Patent Pending · 28.02.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and the universities thems…
  8. Palace of Delights · 07.03.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists and high school stude…
  9. Animal Impostors · 14.03.1982 · 55 dk
    In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animals, both predators and…
  10. Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome · 28.03.1982 · 55 dk
    What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes which make us age and how to control them.
  11. The Case of the UFOs · 12.10.1982 · 55 dk
    For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With vivid film and accou…
  12. The Fragile Mountain · 19.10.1982 · 55 dk
    The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in this breathtaking docum…
  13. Here's Looking At You Kid · 09.11.1982 · 55 dk
    Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resilience in an 11-year-…
  14. Adventures of Teenage Scientists · 16.11.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. Wi…
  15. The Cobalt Blues · 23.11.1982 · 55 dk
    An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which examines and questions Rea…
  16. Goodbye Louisiana · 30.11.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and where last year 49 squ…
  17. Whale Watch · 07.12.1982 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known facts about the mating an…
  18. Tracking The Supertrains · 14.12.1982 · 55 dk
    While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast…
  19. The Making of a Natural History Film · 04.01.1983 · 55 dk
    To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about how wildlife films are …
Sezon 10 · 21 bölüm
  1. Hawaii: Crucible of Life · 18.01.1983 · 55 dk
    This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an extraordinary world far from the teeming tourist hotels, on…
  2. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out · 25.01.1983 · 55 dk
    NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous personal charm, who speak…
  3. Lassa Fever · 08.02.1983 · 55 dk
    A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle against it. NOVA re…
  4. The Miracle of Life · 15.02.1983 · 55 dk
    NOVA presents the first film ever made of the incredible chain of events which turns a sperm and an egg into a newborn baby. Amazing photographic techniques giv…
  5. Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy · 01.03.1983 · 55 dk
    Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposure. NOVA turns its spotlight on the tragic consequences of as…
  6. City of Coral · 08.03.1983 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a coral reef, where the line between plants and animals is…
  7. Fat Chance in a Thin World · 22.03.1983 · 55 dk
    "Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up with some surprising answers about weight and dieting that coul…
  8. Sixty Minutes to Meltdown · 29.03.1983 · 55 dk
    The accident at Three Mile Island made front page news all over the world and rocked the entire nuclear power industry. In this special 90-minute broadcast, NOV…
  9. Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales · 11.10.1983 · 55 dk
    The dream of talking with animals has been with us for centuries. NOVA explores the latest research, from language experiments with dolphins and apes to studies…
  10. The Artificial Heart · 18.10.1983 · 55 dk
    Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first artificial heart implant in 1982. He died in March 1983, having survived 112 days with the world's first permane…
  11. Talking Turtle · 25.10.1983 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at computers in the classroom through the eyes of MIT's Seymour Papert, father of the Turtle—a computerized robot that crawls on the floor and talks …
  12. Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial · 01.11.1983 · 55 dk
    Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropology. But in recent years, some of these people have begun to o…
  13. To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross · 08.11.1983 · 55 dk
    Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has become a legend in her lifetime for her work with the dying. For the first time on American television, her explorations with pati…
  14. A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds · 15.11.1983 · 55 dk
    Can the thoroughbred horse run any faster? NOVA examines the billion-dollar horse racing industry in its search for the magic combination of speed, stamina and …
  15. A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery · 22.11.1983 · 55 dk
    When plastic surgeons repair the shattered face of a soldier or rescue a child from a disfiguring disease, the victory is more than skin-deep. NOVA looks at the…
  16. Captives of Care · 29.11.1983 · 55 dk
    Patients at an Australian institution for the severely handicapped rebel against a pair of over-zealous custodians. This astonishing true story was filmed as a …
  17. Twenty-Five Years in Space · 06.12.1983 · 55 dk
    As the American space program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, NOVA chronicles the effects of the space age on Earth, drawing on popular music, film a…
  18. Nuclear Strategy for Beginners · 13.12.1983 · 55 dk
    Will nuclear weapons deter World War III or only make it more likely? NOVA explores the military strategies of the nuclear age, now that the challenge may no lo…
  19. The Climate Crisis · 20.12.1983 · 55 dk
    This summer's record temperatures may be one of the signs that the earth's atmosphere is warming up. NOVA looks at the climate predictions and hazard warnings f…
  20. Eyes Over China · 27.12.1983 · 55 dk
    NOVA documents a dramatic encounter in international medicine when an American plane lands in China—equipped with a state-of-the-art eye-operating theater—and t…
  21. Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence · 10.01.1984 · 55 dk
    In a culture laced with alcohol, the search for a scientific understanding of alcoholism is as complex as the disease. In an interdisciplinary report, NOVA look…
Sezon 11 · 20 bölüm
  1. The Case of ESP · 17.01.1984 · 55 dk
    In the past decade, a number of researchers have begun systematic laboratory research into extrasensory perception—ESP. NOVA considers the claims for—and agains…
  2. Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier · 31.01.1984 · 55 dk
    An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica, the ice-covered continent we are only just beginning to und…
  3. China's Only Child · 14.02.1984 · 55 dk
    Efforts to control the population explosion are among the burning controversies of our time. NOVA looks at the one-child policy of the People's Republic of Chin…
  4. Will I Walk Again? · 28.02.1984 · 55 dk
    Is there a cure for paralyzing spinal injuries? Most neurosurgeons are doubtful, pointing to the central nervous system's most apparent inability to heal itself…
  5. Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings · 06.03.1984 · 55 dk
    Al Giddings is one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world. In a riveting look at the unearthly beauties and terrors of the seas, NOVA presents a …
  6. Down on the Farm · 20.03.1984 · 55 dk
    Agriculture is America's biggest industry. This productivity, envied around the world, is also depleting the most essential ingredients in farming: water and so…
  7. Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care · 27.03.1984 · 55 dk
    What are America's obligations to its native population? As an important Indian health act comes up for renewal in Congress this Spring (1984), NOVA explores th…
  8. The World According to Weisskopf · 03.04.1984 · 55 dk
    Victor Weisskopf: physicist, lover of music and citizen of the world. NOVA profiles the international statesman of science and learns that one of the giants of …
  9. Space Bridge to Moscow · 02.10.1984 · 55 dk
    At a time when scientific exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union is at its lowest since the 1950s, a special hookup will allow eight leading So…
  10. The National Science Test I · 16.10.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA departs from tradition with the first National Science Test. Viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists Jane Alexander, Jules Bergman, Marva Collins a…
  11. Fountains of Paradise · 23.10.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka. Will this high-risk project prove to be a great leap forward or an industrial an…
  12. The Mystery of Yellow Rain · 30.10.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores whether "yellow rain," described by members of the Hmong tribe of Laos, is a form of chemical warfare—or a naturally occurring phenomenon.
  13. The Nomads of the Rain Forest · 06.11.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA visits a tribe of Ecuadoran Indians who still maintain traditions that date back to the Stone Age—thirty years after their first contact with Western Civil…
  14. Farmers of the Sea · 13.11.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at the "blue revolution"—modern advances in the ancient art of raising aquatic animals and plants—in the United States, Japan, Scotland and other cou…
  15. Frontiers of Plastic Surgery · 20.11.1984 · 55 dk
    NOVA's sequel to "A Normal Face" examines the merging of technology and art in modern reconstruction and cosmetic surgical techniques.
  16. Space Women · 27.11.1984 · 55 dk
    They have been part of the United States' space program for more than 20 years. Who are these talented, courageous women? NOVA looks at astronaut Sally Ride and…
  17. Jaws: The True Story · 04.12.1984 · 55 dk
    Acclaimed underwater cameraman Al Giddings takes NOVA viewers beneath the waves to explore the fact and fiction surrounding the great white shark.
  18. Acid Rain: New Bad News · 11.12.1984 · 55 dk
    The debate over acid rain continues to grow. NOVA travels to West Germany, the mid-Atlantic states and New England to examine the controversy surrounding this p…
  19. Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life · 18.12.1984 · 55 dk
    What do dinosaurs, a panda's thumb and a peacock's tail have in common? Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, the internationally renowned paleontologist and Evolutionary theo…
  20. The Garden of Inheritance · 08.01.1985 · 55 dk
    In this docudrama presentation, NOVA looks at the life, times and work of Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Augustinian friar whose revolutionary scientific Exper…
Sezon 12 · 20 bölüm
  1. Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines · 15.01.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the fascinating world of Dr. Harold Edgerton, electronics wizard and inventor extraordinaire, whose invention of the electronic strobe, a "magic l…
  2. Global Village · 22.01.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA presents an in-depth look at India's attempt to use satellite technology to leapfrog into the era of space-age communication and whether it brings benefit …
  3. Conquest of the Parasites · 29.01.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the complex world of parasites, parasitic diseases and the exciting work currently being done by a new breed of medical researchers as they meet t…
  4. In the Land of the Polar Bears · 05.02.1985 · 55 dk
    A rare look at the beautiful and desolate Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast of Alaska-as seen through the eyes of Soviet Filmmaker and …
  5. AIDS: Chapter One · 12.02.1985 · 55 dk
    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a deadly disease that has struck down some 2,000 people in the four years since its discovery. NOVA examines ho…
  6. The Shape of Things · 19.02.1985 · 55 dk
    Sea shells, Crystals, Honeycombs, Eggs and seeds: They are shaped the way they are for a reason. NOVA takes viewers on a unique journey of discovery to find out…
  7. Baby Talk · 26.02.1985 · 55 dk
    It's a mystery just how children acquire language. Does the process begin in the womb? And which comes first, language or thought? NOVA explores the fascinating…
  8. The Mathematical Mystery Tour · 05.03.1985 · 55 dk
    Imagine a bottle with no inside or a number bigger than infinity or parallel lines that meet. Welcome to the world of pure mathematics. NOVA offers a look into …
  9. Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities · 12.03.1985 · 55 dk
    What do Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the painter Raphael and chess champion Bobby Fischer have in common? They were all child prodigies. NOVA explores the current e…
  10. Monarch of the Mountains · 19.03.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the breeding, migration and survival patterns of the Rocky Mountain elk in a unique film, made totally under natural conditions. Telephoto lenses …
  11. The National Science Test II · 08.10.1985 · 55 dk
    In NOVA's special sequel to 1984's National Science Test, viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists David Attenborough, Michelle Johnson, Edwin Newman and…
  12. Seeds of Tomorrow · 15.10.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines worldwide efforts of scientists who employ aggressive agricultural technologies to ensure food for the future.
  13. What Einstein Never Knew · 22.10.1985 · 55 dk
    Albert Einstein did not live to find the answer. NOVA follows a new generation of physicists in their search to explain the mystery of the universe.
  14. The Robot Revolution? · 29.10.1985 · 55 dk
    How are the computer and the robot affecting the way we work? NOVA chronicles the new industrial revolution reshaping the American workplace.
  15. The Magic of Special Effects · 05.11.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA cameras go behind-the-scenes to reveal the new art of illusion, Hollywood-style, focusing on three blockbuster films—Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and …
  16. Child Survival: The Silent Emergency · 12.11.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA charts the progress of an ambitious worldwide health program established to save the lives of millions of children who continue to die from common but cura…
  17. Tornado! · 19.11.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows a chase team—a group of scientists who chart deadly Tornadoes—in an effort to learn more about predicting nature's most powerful and elusive weathe…
  18. The Genetic Gamble · 26.11.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines current research and its ethical implications as modern medicine confronts the era of human gene therapy.
  19. Animal Architects · 03.12.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the intricate world of nature's construction industry and presents rare footage of unusual habits.
  20. The Plane that Changed the World · 17.12.1985 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins the 50th anniversary celebration of the DC-3—the plane that revolutionized commercial air travel, served gallantly in World War II and is called the …
Sezon 13 · 21 bölüm
  1. Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime · 21.01.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with specialized cameras, high powered telescopes and spacecraft…
  2. Goddess of the Earth · 28.01.1986 · 55 dk
    Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life on Earth controls the environment. NOVA explores this provoca…
  3. Horsemen of China · 04.02.1986 · 55 dk
    For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be dominated by either the Chinese or nearby Russian cultures. Today,…
  4. Life's First Feelings · 11.02.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theory that early childhood psychological intervention can head o…
  5. The Case of the Frozen Addict · 18.02.1986 · 55 dk
    In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms, caused by a bad batch of synthetic hero…
  6. Toxic Trials · 25.02.1986 · 55 dk
    When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town mobilized to investigate why. The result was a landmark stud…
  7. Skydive to the Rain Forest · 04.03.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular waterfalls, colored by exotic flowers and inhabited by rare spec…
  8. Return of the Osprey · 11.03.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to save the majestic Osprey from extinction.
  9. The Rise of a Wonder Drug · 18.03.1986 · 55 dk
    When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible therapeutic value. NOVA explores the "Fleming myth" and reveals …
  10. When Wonder Drugs Don't Work · 25.03.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increases, and studies how one hospital fights its own dramatic epid…
  11. Visions of Star Wars · 22.04.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour documentary contains the most comprehensive information on "Star …
  12. The Search for the Disappeared · 14.10.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of dead in the aftermath of a military reign of terror.
  13. The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side · 21.10.1986 · 55 dk
    The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists suspect that violent events in the early history of the planet …
  14. High-Tech Babies · 04.11.1986 · 55 dk
    Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined. NOVA looks at the medical, legal and moral questions raised …
  15. Can AIDS Be Stopped? · 11.11.1986 · 55 dk
    What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicine? NOVA finds cause for both hope and alarm in the battle ag…
  16. Is Anybody Out There? · 18.11.1986 · 55 dk
    Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a systematic attempt to find out. NOVA joins the search with guest h…
  17. Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders · 25.11.1986 · 55 dk
    Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to another, often thousands of miles away. NOVA penetrates the myster…
  18. Are You Swimming in a Sewer? · 02.12.1986 · 55 dk
    NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-carrying microbes are routinely dumped.
  19. Sail Wars! · 09.12.1986 · 55 dk
    Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engineering effort to design a technically advanced sailboat.
  20. Leprosy Can Be Cured! · 16.12.1986 · 55 dk
    Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million people. NOVA looks at the tragedy of the disease that need n…
  21. How Babies Get Made · 13.01.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecules—and more clues to the mystery of how a complete baby dev…
Sezon 14 · 21 bölüm
  1. Countdown to the Invisible Universe · 20.01.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomical Satellite—and discovers never-before-seen comets, stars, galaxies and other cele…
  2. Children of Eve · 27.01.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small group of women living in Africa 300,000 years ago.
  3. Why Planes Crash · 03.02.1987 · 55 dk
    Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA looks at some shocking instances of pilot negligence and wh…
  4. Orangutans of the Rain Forest · 10.02.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutans, where scientists study the endangered ape. Who is observing whom? It is not alwa…
  5. Freud Under Analysis · 17.02.1987 · 55 dk
    Fifty years after his death, the creator of psychoanalysis is still the subject of intense debate. Was Freud right or wrong? NOVA profiles the enigmatic man and…
  6. The Hole in the Sky · 24.02.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a baffling "hole" in the Earth's protective ozone layer.
  7. Confessions of a Weaponeer · 03.03.1987 · 55 dk
    Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb scientist at Los Alamos, a presidential advisor in the Eisenhow…
  8. Great Moments from NOVA · 10.03.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science coverage. A "talking" chimp, an exploding volcano and a sight-and-sound space video …
  9. Will the World Starve? · 24.03.1987 · 55 dk
    All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil crisis in world agriculture—a plight that has already resul…
  10. The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore · 31.03.1987 · 55 dk
    In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert because of mismanagement of water resources. NOVA examines the causes and cures of…
  11. Rocky Road to Jupiter · 07.04.1987 · 55 dk
    In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space program, NOVA chronicles the ambitious and long-delayed Galileo mission to Jupiter—st…
  12. Death of a Star · 06.10.1987 · 55 dk
    Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of all those little “aftermath” particles floating through space? Nova: Death of a Star…
  13. Spy Machines · 13.10.1987 · 55 dk
    On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, NOVA investigates the spy planes and satellites that played a critical role in history and influence arms c…
  14. Hidden Power of Plants · 20.10.1987 · 55 dk
    Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against disease. NOVA follows the urgent efforts to track down new medicines in nature.
  15. Japan's American Genius · 27.10.1987 · 55 dk
    Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind amorphous materials-a simpler and less expe…
  16. A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama · 03.11.1987 · 55 dk
    The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the building of the pyramids. Historian David McCullough navigates through the canal and tel…
  17. Volcano! · 10.11.1987 · 55 dk
    Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists who are developing new techniques to predict when volcanos wil…
  18. How Good is Soviet Science? · 17.11.1987 · 55 dk
    Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including Notre Dame in Paris, St…
  19. Ancient Treasures from the Deep · 01.12.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck ever excavated, a richly-laden merchant vessel dating from the time of King Tut.
  20. Riddle of the Joints · 08.12.1987 · 55 dk
    A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecticut sheds new light on rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling inflammation of the joints…
  21. Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People · 15.12.1987 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, about an unknown, mysterious and advanced sea-faring people who lived along the North A…
Sezon 15 · 22 bölüm
  1. Top Gun and Beyond · 19.01.1988 · 55 dk
    Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-trained pilots are still needed to win air battles. NOVA looks at how planes and pilots a…
  2. How to Create a Junk Food · 26.01.1988 · 55 dk
    Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in the creation of snack foods.
  3. Buried in Ice · 02.02.1988 · 55 dk
    Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic and ask why all perished.
  4. Why Planes Burn · 09.02.1988 · 55 dk
    Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard planes less likely and more survivable.
  5. Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial · 23.02.1988 · 55 dk
    In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to determine whether the new drug Interleukin-2—the first to make use of the body's o…
  6. Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide · 01.03.1988 · 55 dk
    Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and narrates this NOVA report on stepped-up efforts to reduce th…
  7. The Mystery of the Master Builders · 08.03.1988 · 55 dk
    Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including Notre Dame in Paris, St…
  8. Whale Rescue · 15.03.1988 · 55 dk
    It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the midst of a winter storm, accompanied by strong on-shore gales and an unusually high…
  9. The Man Who Loved Numbers · 22.03.1988 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who astounded mathematicians in the 1910s with his brilliant insight into the world of nu…
  10. Race for the Superconductor · 29.03.1988 · 55 dk
    NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United States race to develop a material that will conduct electricity at room temperature …
  11. Can You Still Get Polio? · 05.04.1988 · 55 dk
    Most cases of polio in this country are caused by the vaccine designed to prevent it. NOVA examines the controvery surrounding the nation's vaccine policy.
  12. Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft · 06.09.1988 · 55 dk
    Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surgery was practiced without the benefit of anaesthesia or antisc…
  13. Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart · 13.09.1988 · 55 dk
    Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.
  14. Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old · 20.09.1988 · 55 dk
    From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.
  15. Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife · 27.09.1988 · 55 dk
    Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and tech…
  16. Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel? · 04.10.1988 · 55 dk
    Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.
  17. Can the Next President Win the Space Race? · 11.10.1988 · 55 dk
    Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward…
  18. Do Scientists Cheat? · 18.10.1988 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?
  19. Who Shot President Kennedy? · 15.11.1988 · 55 dk
    Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
  20. The Light Stuff · 22.11.1988 · 55 dk
    Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scenes report of a human powered-flight across the Aegean Sea, a …
  21. The All-American Bear · 06.12.1988 · 55 dk
    The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild—foraging, mating, playing and constantly preparing for its remarkable hibernation—is captured for the fi…
  22. Can We Make a Better Doctor? · 13.12.1988 · 55 dk
    NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of a doctor. In the premiere episode, we follow a handful of students as they start t…
Sezon 16 · 20 bölüm
  1. Hot Enough for You? · 17.01.1989 · 55 dk
    Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher temperatures, rising sea levels and other e…
  2. The Last Journey of a Genius · 24.01.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famous for his role as gadfly of the Presiden…
  3. The Strange New Science of Chaos · 31.01.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weather to brain waves.
  4. Back to Chernobyl · 14.02.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with correspondent Bill Kurtis.
  5. God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs · 21.02.1989 · 55 dk
    In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students take notes, he explains that creationism …
  6. Adrift on the Gulf Stream · 28.02.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.
  7. Secrets of Easter Island (1) · 07.03.1989 · 55 dk
    In this two-part series, NOVA investigates the mystery of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Who built its celebrated statues and why?
  8. Legends of Easter Island (2) · 07.03.1989 · 55 dk
    In the second part of this two-part series, NOVA explores ancient legends hold the clues to the violent history of the South Pacific's Easter Island.
  9. The World Is Full of Oil! · 21.03.1989 · 55 dk
    Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.
  10. Confronting the Killer Gene · 28.03.1989 · 55 dk
    Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell them if in fact they will fall victim. In…
  11. The Hidden City · 03.10.1989 · 55 dk
    Actor Judd Hirsch narrates this behind-the scenes look at what makes New York City tick. Water, power and waste are the critical systems that usually work, but …
  12. The Controversial Dr. Koop · 10.10.1989 · 55 dk
    In this profile of the former Surgeon General, NOVA follows events as they unfold in a unique behind-the-scenes account of a man who speaks his mind on AIDS, sm…
  13. Design Wars! · 17.10.1989 · 55 dk
    Five architects compete for the approval of architecture-obsessed Chicagoans in the contest to build the city's new public library. NOVA looks at the strengths …
  14. Echoes of War · 24.10.1989 · 55 dk
    The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOVA tells the little-known wartime history of radar.
  15. Decoding the Book of Life · 31.10.1989 · 55 dk
    Biologists around the world gear up to decode the three-billion-letter genetic message that describes how humans are made. Ethicists warn that it may not be suc…
  16. Hurricane! · 07.11.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA studies hurricanes—the lurking giants waiting to destroy many coastal areas—by flying straight into one. Scientists hope that such close-up studies will su…
  17. Will Venice Survive Its Rescue? · 14.11.1989 · 55 dk
    Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to save it from drowning. Environmentalists worry that the gat…
  18. What Is Music? · 21.11.1989 · 55 dk
    East and West came into direct conflict over trade and power in the 19th century. The West won. NOVA explores how Japan was later able to master Western methods…
  19. Yellowstone's Burning Question · 05.12.1989 · 55 dk
    The 1988 Yellowstone fire may have been one of the worst in human memory, but nature has had eons of experience with such events. NOVA accompanies scientists wh…
  20. The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret · 12.12.1989 · 55 dk
    NOVA re-enacts a classic case of classroom detection when English schoolboys track down a secret Soviet launch site. Docudrama.
Sezon 17 · 20 bölüm
  1. Poison in the Rockies · 09.01.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA reports on the 100-year-old legacy of pollution from mining that poisons the once-pristine waters of the Rocky Mountain states. Acid Rain and economic deve…
  2. Race for the Top · 23.01.1990 · 55 dk
    Using some of the largest machines ever built on earth, American and European physicists race to discover one of the most fundamental and most elusive objects i…
  3. Disguises of War · 06.02.1990 · 55 dk
    Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling substances that are easi…
  4. The Bomb's Lethal Legacy · 13.02.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines an alarming nuclear waste problem at the Hanfrod Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where 45 years of mismanagement in the nuclear w…
  5. The Big Spill · 27.02.1990 · 55 dk
    Covering last year's Exxon Valdez oil spill from an unexplored angle, NOVA focuses on how technology failed in preventing, containing and cleaning up the Alaska…
  6. The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon · 20.03.1990 · 55 dk
    China in the 13th century was the richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced civilization on earth. NOVA looks at how China achieved what it did, and…
  7. The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision · 27.03.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the extraordinary transformation that propelled Europe outward into the world from the 15th to 18th centuries, while China remained the insular mi…
  8. The Genius that Was China: The Threat from Japan · 03.04.1990 · 55 dk
    Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more about us than we think…
  9. The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again? · 10.04.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers China's long road to economic and technological equality with the West, punctuated by frequent setbacks such as the 1989 massacre of pro-democractic…
  10. The KGB, The Computer and Me · 02.10.1990 · 55 dk
    This documentary covers the surprising tale of an average systems administrator who stumbled upon a KGB spy operation. Clifford Stoll carried out one of the fir…
  11. Neptune's Cold Fury · 09.10.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA visits Neptune, the planet that took Voyager 12 years to reach. Mysteries abound in and around this big, blue world at the outer limits of the solar system…
  12. To Boldly Go... · 16.10.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA chronicles the Voyager space mission—from Earth to the ends of the solar system. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and dozens of moons star in this epic voyage of ex…
  13. Poisoned Winds of War · 23.10.1990 · 55 dk
    Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling substances that are easi…
  14. The Blimp is Back! · 30.10.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the troubled past and promising future of blimps, zeppelins, cyclocranes and other species of airships. There's life in the old gasbags yet.
  15. Earthquake! · 06.11.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at the high-stakes quest to predict earthquakes. Despite past disappointments, geologists still hope to divine the clues that precede nature's ultima…
  16. Killing Machines · 13.11.1990 · 55 dk
    Robotic weapons that seek out and destroy ships, planes, and other targets are the wave of the future. NOVA questions whether their proliferation may spell an e…
  17. Can the Elephant Be Saved? · 20.11.1990 · 55 dk
    Is the ivory ban in the elephant's best interest? NOVA looks at the controversial strategies to save the world's largest land animal from extinction.
  18. We Know Where You Live · 27.11.1990 · 55 dk
    Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more about us than we think…
  19. In the Land of the Llamas · 04.12.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, these four members of the camel family are exceptionally well …
  20. What's Killing the Children? · 18.12.1990 · 55 dk
    NOVA tracks a mysterious disease that suddenly and fatally attacks the children of a small Brazilian town. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control in A…
Sezon 18 · 19 bölüm
  1. Return to Mt. St. Helens · 08.01.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is recovering from the disaster.
  2. ConFusion in a Jar · 30.04.1991 · 55 dk
    An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NOVA covers the cold fusion controversy.
  3. The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs (1) · 05.02.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers the most elaborate expedition ever undertaken in the search for dinosaurs—to China's Gobi desert. Paleontologists brave sandstorms, heat and worse t…
  4. Case of the Flying Dinosaur · 12.02.1991 · 55 dk
    Are dinosaurs still among us? NOVA looks at the contentious question of whether present-day birds are dinosaurs. Over the years, new fossil discoveries keep ame…
  5. T. rex Exposed · 19.02.1991 · 55 dk
    Tyrannosaurus rex, the terrifying kind of the dinos, recently turned up in a nearly complete skeleton in Montana. NOVA follows the dig to extract the bones and …
  6. The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman · 26.02.1991 · 55 dk
    In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the mysterious genius behind the world's first satellite, the first m…
  7. The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon · 27.02.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the moon ahead of the Americans. Was Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" almost upstaged?
  8. The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission · 28.02.1991 · 55 dk
    In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and recovery of a cosmonaut crew that visits the Soviet space station Mir. Unexpected emerg…
  9. Swimming With Whales · 05.03.1991 · 55 dk
    Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search of whales. Humpbacks, Killers, Grays and other whale species make their appearance i…
  10. The Chip vs. the Chess Master · 26.03.1991 · 55 dk
    Will machines be able to beat us at our own game? The computer chess champ matches wits with the human world titleholder.
  11. Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape · 01.10.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers the causes and attempted cures of baldness. Some men take pride in their bald heads; others will go to great lengths to cover up. Alan "Douglas Brac…
  12. So You Want to Be a Doctor? · 09.10.1991 · 55 dk
    In a two-hour special, NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through four years of medical school. The first examination, the anatomy lab, the first death, the fi…
  13. Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls · 15.10.1991 · 55 dk
    Forty years after they were discovered, the Dead Sea Scrolls have yet to be published in their entirety. NOVA looks at the laborious-some say scandalous-process…
  14. Suicide Mission to Chernobyl · 22.10.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA accompanies Soviet scientists on a deadly mission inside the sarcophagus-the massive structure that entombs the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Will there be an…
  15. Taller Than Everest? · 05.11.1991 · 55 dk
    The tallest mountain in the world? Think again—cartographers had to when satellite date revealed a peak called "K2" might be the real champ. Which is the world'…
  16. Fastest Planes in the Sky · 12.11.1991 · 55 dk
    The fastest machines in the sky are going to be slow stuff when the latest speed demons on the drawing board take to the air. NOVA looks at the intoxicating lur…
  17. Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife · 03.12.1991 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows the efforts of four participants in a celebrated California study to unblock arteries without using drugs or surgery before their heart disease bec…
  18. Skyscraper! A NOVA Special · 10.12.1991 · 55 dk
    This 80-minute NOVA pledge special chronicles the building of the Worldwide Plaza, 47-story office tower in midtown Manhattan, from a hole in the ground to a 77…
  19. The Fine Art of Faking It · 17.12.1991 · 55 dk
    The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minutes of frenetic research that revealed new…
Sezon 19 · 20 bölüm
  1. Hell Fighters of Kuwait · 14.01.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created the worst manmade pollution event in history. Fire fighting …
  2. Submarine! · 21.01.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballistic missle submarine USS Michigan. The Cold War may be won, but these submerged super…
  3. Saddam's War on Wildlife · 28.01.1992 · 55 dk
    Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gulf War, environmentalist John Walsh did his best to save animals from oil spills, bu…
  4. What Smells? · 11.02.1992 · 55 dk
    The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the mysterious aromas and hidden messages picked up by our sense of smell. David Suzuki hosts…
  5. Can You Believe TV Ratings? · 18.02.1992 · 55 dk
    Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratings are getting more accurate but still are far from scientif…
  6. Making a Dishonest Buck · 03.03.1992 · 55 dk
    Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA looks at why US currency is so easy to fake and what the government is doing about it.
  7. Rescuing Baby Whales · 10.03.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling behavior becomes more common.
  8. An Astronaut's View of the Earth · 17.03.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the cameras on location aboard the Space Shutt…
  9. Eclipse of the Century · 24.03.1992 · 55 dk
    The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minutes of frenetic research that revealed new…
  10. Animal Olympians II · 25.08.1992 · 55 dk
    In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner…
  11. The Genius Behind the Bomb · 29.09.1992 · 55 dk
    Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons…
  12. Mind of a Serial Killer · 13.10.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs. Using a detailed…
  13. Search for the First Americans · 20.10.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of the last Ice Age, as we all learned in sch…
  14. Rafting Through the Grand Canyon · 27.10.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first canyon voyage of the 19th-century explo…
  15. This Old Pyramid · 04.11.1992 · 55 dk
    In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner…
  16. Iceman · 10.11.1992 · 55 dk
    Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found along with artifacts of his vanished way of life. NOVA covers th…
  17. Private Lives of Dolphins · 17.11.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzees, dolphins have evolved…
  18. Brain Transplant · 01.12.1992 · 55 dk
    Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unavailable in the US due to the ban on fetal…
  19. Can You Stop People From Drinking? · 22.12.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new weapons—including prohibition, hypnotism,…
  20. Sex and the Single Rhino · 29.12.1992 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conservationists need all the tools that biolo…
Sezon 20 · 20 bölüm
  1. The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons · 05.01.1993 · 55 dk
    In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner…
  2. Can Bombing Win a War? · 19.01.1993 · 55 dk
    The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history of strategic bombing …
  3. The Deadly Deception · 26.01.1993 · 55 dk
    For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of …
  4. Nazis and the Russian Bomb · 02.02.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of the crash program in …
  5. In the Path of a Killer Volcano · 09.02.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mt. Pinatubo in the Phili…
  6. Can Science Build a Champion Athlete? · 16.02.1993 · 55 dk
    Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA covers the record-s…
  7. Diving for Pirate Gold · 23.02.1993 · 55 dk
    These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plundering sunken ships. NO…
  8. Murder, Rape and DNA · 02.03.1993 · 55 dk
    Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is putting increasing nu…
  9. The Lost Tribe · 30.03.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippines in 1971, they were…
  10. The NOVA Quiz · 05.10.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famous guests pose questi…
  11. Wanted: Butch and Sundance · 12.10.1993 · 55 dk
    Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They find Hollywood and lege…
  12. Secrets of the Psychics · 19.10.1993 · 55 dk
    Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others. In …
  13. Dying to Breathe · 26.10.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants—a new lung. Months of waiting end…
  14. Shadow of the Condor · 02.11.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America. Footage includes ne…
  15. The Real Jurassic Park · 09.11.1993 · 55 dk
    With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts , NOVA investigates what it would take to recreate the dinosa…
  16. Roller Coaster! · 16.11.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of the future may take…
  17. Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 · 30.11.1993 · 55 dk
    US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama. Nothing about the accident makes sense, until a key clue…
  18. Great Moments from NOVA · 07.12.1993 · 55 dk
    Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventure, mystery, drama a…
  19. The Best Mind Since Einstein · 21.12.1993 · 55 dk
    A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the myste…
  20. Stranger in the Mirror · 28.12.1993 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and familiar objects, made f…
Sezon 21 · 20 bölüm
  1. Codebreakers · 18.01.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The program probes the most celebrated of all cryp…
  2. Dinosaurs of the Gobi · 25.01.1994 · 55 dk
    Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert. T…
  3. Daredevils of the Sky · 01.02.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship. The sport, as precisely choreographed as…
  4. Journey to Kilimanjaro · 08.02.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the scorched plains. Giant forest hogs, beard…
  5. Can Chimps Talk? · 15.02.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human symbols. Are they speaking their minds? …
  6. In Search of Human Origins, Part One · 28.02.1994 · 55 dk
    In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species - reaching back more than three mil…
  7. In Search of Human Origins, Part Two · 01.03.1994 · 55 dk
    Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to popular myth, scavenging was a more lucr…
  8. In Search of Human Origins, Part Three · 02.03.1994 · 55 dk
    At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act like us? Anthropologist Donald Johanson l…
  9. Can China Kick the Habit? · 12.04.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western advertising and trading practices have exacerbated the fatal romance with smoking in …
  10. Aircraft Carrier! · 19.04.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence-where every day is a constant drill of launching and lan…
  11. The Great Wildlife Heist · 11.10.1994 · 55 dk
    Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelligent birds: parrots. NOVA goes undercover with a US governme…
  12. Secret of the Wild Child · 18.10.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social workers discoverd her as a teenager, Genie had…
  13. Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird · 25.10.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extinction over a century ago. In a journey retracing its migratory …
  14. What's New About Menopause · 01.11.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical and ethical controversies that arise when science enables wom…
  15. The Tribe that Time Forgot · 08.11.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismembered and partially ate three prospectors in 1976. Locating the…
  16. Killer Quake! · 15.11.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tragedy, seismic pressure continues to build. Scientists fear …
  17. Buried in Ash · 29.11.1994 · 55 dk
    Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10 feet of ash, preserving countless skeletons of prehistoric …
  18. Rescue Mission in Space · 06.12.1994 · 55 dk
    Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telescope was recently repaired in a dramatic Space Shuttle missio…
  19. Journey to the Sacred Sea · 20.12.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth. Investigating Baikal from above, below a…
  20. In Search of the First Language · 27.12.1994 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory that claims to reconstruct words from a time…
Sezon 22 · 13 bölüm
  1. Mammoths of the Ice Age · 09.01.1995 · 55 dk
    The subjects of Stone Age cave paintings thunder onto the screen as NOVA explores Woolly Mammoths. Recent discoveries show that the hairy ancestors of elephants…
  2. Vikings in America · 24.01.1995 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates the myth and reality of the first known Europeans to reach North America -Vikings. These intrepid Norsemen explored and settled parts of prese…
  3. Little Creatures Who Run the World · 31.01.1995 · 55 dk
    NOVA looks at the most successful life forms on the face of the planet in Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World, hosted by Harvard University's international…
  4. Nazi Designers of Death · 07.02.1995 · 55 dk
    NOVA uses recently discovered documents to uncover the complicity of German architects and engineers in the Holocaust. Focusing on Auschwitz, the program tells …
  5. Siamese Twins · 14.02.1995 · 55 dk
    Born joined at the pelvis, Siamese twins Dao and Duan were brought to the United States from Thailand to assess their chances for being separated surgically. NO…
  6. Mystery of the Senses—Hearing · 19.02.1995 · 55 dk
    Shortly after midnight on 17 July 19l8, at a house in the town of Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, Bolshevik guards awakened the deposed Tsar Nicholas II tog…
  7. Mystery of the Senses—Smell · 20.02.1995 · 55 dk
    NOVA unravels baffling cases of bad air in buildings all over the world. Even hospitals are on the "sick building" list - along with offices, schools, homes and…
  8. Mystery of the Senses—Taste · 21.02.1995 · 55 dk
  9. Mystery of the Senses—Touch · 22.02.1995 · 55 dk
  10. Mystery of the Senses—Vision · 23.02.1995 · 55 dk
  11. The Universe Within · 07.03.1995 · 55 dk
    What amazing processes go on inside super-athletes and couch potatoes alike? NOVA uses the latest medical imaging techniques to explore the body's incredible in…
  12. Making of a Doctor · 03.05.1995 · 55 dk
    In the third installment of a 10-year project, NOVA checks up on a group of aspiring doctors who've been chronicled since their first day of medical school in 1…
  13. Fast Cars · 23.05.1995 · 55 dk
    What does it take to win at Indy? NOVA follows champion race driver Bobby Rahal and a team of engineers as they strive to design a new car that can win the chec…
Sezon 23 · 19 bölüm
  1. Anastasia Dead or Alive? · 10.10.1995 · 55 dk
    Investigate the massacre of Tsar Nicholas and his family, and evaluate whether modern science has resolved the mystery surrounding Princess Anastasia.
  2. Venus Unveiled · 17.10.1995 · 55 dk
    Venus reveals its true face, recorded in detail for the first time by the radar spacecraft Magellan. Our next-door planetary neighbor turns out to be one of the…
  3. Hawaii Born of Fire · 24.10.1995 · 55 dk
    From their blistering beginnings as molten rock, the Hawiian islands have grown into a verdant paradise of unique lifeforms.
  4. The Doomsday Asteroid · 31.10.1995 · 55 dk
    Is there an asteroid or comet out there with our name on it? NOVA scans the skies and the geological record on Earth, for evidence that giant rocks from outer s…
  5. Lightning! · 07.11.1995 · 55 dk
  6. Hunt for the Serial Arsonist · 14.11.1995 · 55 dk
    In the spring of 1991, a rash of suspicious store fires in Los Angeles set fire investigators on the trail of a serial arsonist. Using ingenious techniques to "…
  7. Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef · 28.11.1995 · 55 dk
    Recording sights that will astonish even experienced divers, NOVA documents an extraordinary day in the life of the largest coral reef in the world, capturing f…
  8. Race to Catch a Buckyball · 19.12.1995 · 55 dk
  9. Can Buildings Make You Sick? · 26.12.1995 · 55 dk
    A search for the causes of Sick Building Syndrome. Experts look at various problem buildings, inspecting their air conditioning, lights and carpets for clues to…
  10. Terror in the Mine Fields · 09.01.1996 · 55 dk
  11. The Day the Earth Shook · 16.01.1996 · 55 dk
  12. B-29 Frozen in Time · 30.01.1996 · 55 dk
    Travel on a perilous mission to repair and refly a rare B-29 bomber stranded on a Greenland icecap for almost 50 years.Gleaming like a jewel this well preserved…
  13. Plague Fighters · 06.02.1996 · 55 dk
  14. War Machines of Tomorrow · 20.02.1996 · 55 dk
  15. Kidnapped by U.F.O.'s? · 27.02.1996 · 55 dk
    Carl Sagan and other scientists investigate claims that people have been visited or abducted by aliens.
  16. Flood! · 26.03.1996 · 55 dk
    The Great Flood of 1993 leaves a wake of destruction across the Midwest. Can rivers ever be contained?
  17. Dr. Spock the Baby Doc · 02.04.1996 · 55 dk
  18. Warriors of the Amazon · 09.04.1996 · 55 dk
    Explore the unique culture of the Yanomami, an isolated tribe living deep in the Amazonian rainforest.
  19. Bombing of America · 16.04.1996 · 55 dk
    Bombing is on the rise across the United States. But science is fighting back. Hidden within the chaos of a crime scene lie clues that can solve the case. Can s…
Sezon 24 · 21 bölüm
  1. Einstein Revealed · 01.10.1996 · 55 dk
    This two-hour program chronicles Albert Einstein's life and scientific achievements from his birth in 1879 to his death in 1955. The first hour follows Einstein…
  2. Lost City of Arabia · 08.10.1996 · 55 dk
    Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar.
  3. Three Men and a Balloon · 15.10.1996 · 55 dk
    One of the final aeronautics challenges left in the world today does not involve the use of a plane, a rocket, or even an engine. No one has yet been able to ci…
  4. Secrets of Making Money · 22.10.1996 · 55 dk
    With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters.
  5. Top Gun Over Moscow · 12.11.1996 · 55 dk
    Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game?
  6. Shark Attack · 19.11.1996 · 55 dk
    Sharks are known as the "perfect predators," but sometimes they slip up and attack the wrong prey—people.
  7. Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey (1) · 24.11.1996 · 55 dk
    NOVA explores the links between our individual development and the evolution of life itself.
  8. Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World (2) · 25.11.1996 · 55 dk
    This program reveals some of the billions of practically invisible organisms that live on, in, and around us.
  9. Odyssey of Life: The Photographer's Secrets (3) · 26.11.1996 · 55 dk
  10. Cracking the Ice Age · 31.12.1996 · 55 dk
    Did the crash of continents that produced the Himalayan Mountains also trigger the Ice Age?
  11. Kaboom! · 14.01.1997 · 55 dk
    An in-depth and heart stopping look at the ultimate chemical reaction - the explosion. Using high speed photography and dramatic reconstruction, the film will c…
  12. Titanic's Lost Sister · 28.01.1997 · 55 dk
    In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a…
  13. Secrets Of Lost Empires (1): Pyramid · 04.02.1997 · 55 dk
    In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a…
  14. Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1) · 11.02.1997 · 55 dk
    A distinctive feature of this stone site are the trilithons, which consist of two upright stones topped by a horizontal lintel stone. In this program, the NOVA …
  15. Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2) · 11.02.1997 · 55 dk
    Even without such technological advances as wheels, arches, draft animals, iron tools, or a system of writing, the Inca—utilizing a tradition of shared labor—ac…
  16. Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3) · 12.02.1997 · 55 dk
    Pharaohs who built magnificent temples to preserve their names for eternity often graced temple gates with pairs of obelisks, four-sided shafts of granite that …
  17. Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4) · 12.02.1997 · 55 dk
    Citizens of Rome came to the Colosseum to behold free entertainment that usually came in the form of violent war games and bloody battles between humans and ani…
  18. Hunt for Alien Worlds · 18.02.1997 · 55 dk
    Astronomers discover planets beyond our solar system. But is there life on them?
  19. Curse of T.rex · 25.02.1997 · 55 dk
    How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones?
  20. Cut to the Heart · 08.04.1997 · 55 dk
    Ever since World War II, physicians have struggled to find ways to treat heart failure, the biggest killer in the modern world.
  21. Kingdom of the Seahorse · 15.04.1997 · 55 dk
    The world's leading sea horse biologist journeys to Australia and the Philippines to explore the secret lives of these extraordinary fish.
Sezon 25 · 20 bölüm
  1. Coma · 07.10.1997 · 55 dk
    A famous brain surgeon struggles to save the life of a comatose child using a controversial new method of treating severe head injuries. In charge is Dr. Jan Gh…
  2. Faster Than Sound · 14.10.1997 · 55 dk
    On the 50th anniversary of the first supersonic flight, Chuck Yeager relives his gutsy assault on the sound barrier and tells how it was done. Other top test pi…
  3. Bomb Squad · 21.10.1997 · 55 dk
    IRA terrorists and British bomb disposal experts tell behind-the-scenes stories of a a deadly cat-and- mouse game that pits ingenious IRA explosives officers ag…
  4. The Proof · 28.10.1997 · 55 dk
    In a tale of secrecy, obsession, dashed hopes, and brilliant insights, Princeton math sleuth Andrew Wiles goes undercover for eight years to solve history's mos…
  5. Wild Wolves With David Attenborough · 11.11.1997 · 55 dk
    Sir David Attenborough hosts a never-before-seen look at one of the most misunderstood creatures in nature. Special photography, including infrared photography,…
  6. Super Bridge · 12.11.1997 · 55 dk
    Viewers are sidewalk supervisors for one of the most unusual construction projects in the U.S. - the building of the stunningly beautiful and eminently practica…
  7. Treasures of the Sunken City · 18.11.1997 · 55 dk
    The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, guided sailors in the Mediterranean Sea for 16 centuries. NOVA follows an internati…
  8. Avalanche! · 25.11.1997 · 55 dk
    Viewers see what it's like to be overwhelmed by a sudden onslaught of "white death"—an avalanche. Avalanches are an escalating peril as skiers and snowmobilers …
  9. Danger in the Jet Stream · 02.12.1997 · 55 dk
    NOVA covers the latest efforts to be first to circumnavigate the planet non-stop in a balloon. NOVA's cameras are on board for all three attempts, including tha…
  10. Night Creatures of the Kalahari · 06.01.1998 · 55 dk
    Beneath the grassland plains of the Kalahari lies a hidden world of rare and exotic animals. By day, the Kalahari belongs to familiar predators and grazing anim…
  11. Mysterious Mummies of China · 20.01.1998 · 55 dk
    Perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies have been unearthed in a remote Chinese desert. They have long, blonde hair and blue eyes, and don't appear to be the …
  12. Supersonic Spies · 27.01.1998 · 55 dk
    The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner led to a massive espionage effort during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the west. T…
  13. Animal Hospital · 03.02.1998 · 55 dk
    Tapping into the clearly demonstrated affection we all have for our pets, this program will offer an offbeat, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad portrait of pets…
  14. The Brain Eater · 10.02.1998 · 55 dk
    In this scientific mystery, NOVA ventures to the front lines of medical research where scientists are scrambling to understand the strange new ailment popularly…
  15. Everest - The Death Zone · 24.02.1998 · 55 dk
    NOVA treks with a group of Himalayan climbers in their quest to reach the summit of Everest, along the way exploring in never-before-conducted tests how extreme…
  16. Search for the Lost Cave People · 31.03.1998 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows an international team of archaeologists and spelunkers into the Rio la Venta Gorge deep in the Chiapas jungle of Central America. In a rugged canyo…
  17. Warnings from the Ice · 21.04.1998 · 55 dk
    Could the earth as we know it be about to drown? Huge ice sheets in Antarctica may be in the process of collapse, triggering a catastrophic rise in sea level th…
  18. Crocodiles! With David Attenborough · 28.04.1998 · 55 dk
    An unprecedented look at a dangerous predator, this is the second of three natural history programs hosted by Sir David Attenborough. Surviving virtually unchan…
  19. The Truth About Impotence · 12.05.1998 · 55 dk
    NOVA reports on new hope for victims of erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence. Among the promising therapies covered in the program are ones developed b…
  20. The Perfect Pearl · 29.12.1998 · 55 dk
    For centuries, man has risked both life and life savings to possess the pearl's beauty. Pure and perfect, glowing and dazzling, a pearl is actually a mistake fo…
Sezon 26 · 20 bölüm
  1. Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude · 06.10.1998 · 55 dk
    In 1714, following a maritime disaster, British Parliament offers £20,000 for the first reliable method of determining longitude on a ship at sea. It's known th…
  2. Chasing El Nino · 13.10.1998 · 55 dk
    A massive planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportions to disrupt a machi…
  3. Terror In Space · 27.10.1998 · 55 dk
    Experience the harrowing and life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station through the eyes of the Russian and American astronauts who lived thro…
  4. Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond · 03.11.1998 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception.
  5. Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius · 10.11.1998 · 55 dk
    The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today.
  6. Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven (1) · 24.11.1998 · 55 dk
    This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence has emerged of sacri…
  7. Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden (2) · 24.11.1998 · 55 dk
    The Siberian Ice Maiden, discovered in the Pastures of Heaven, on the high Steppes, is believed to have been a shamaness of the lost Pazyryk culture. She had be…
  8. Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman (3) · 24.11.1998 · 55 dk
    Cutting-edge science and archaeology are reconstructing the life and culture of The Iceman—the 5000-year-old frozen corpse found buried in the ice of the Alps. …
  9. Leopards of the Night with David Attenborough · 01.12.1998 · 55 dk
    Night stalkers by nature, leopards are observed both by night and day, using state-of-the-art camera equipment, to reveal never before seen hunting behavior. Fi…
  10. The Perfect Pearl · 29.12.1998 · 55 dk
    The pearl—the only gem produced by a living animal—has long carried a certain allure. Yet the best mollusk for making this gem—the pearl oyster—doesn't always p…
  11. The Beast of Loch Ness · 12.01.1999 · 55 dk
    Is it just a fairy tale, or could a primeval beast lurk in the deep, dark waters of a Scottish lake? Since it was first reported more than 60 years ago, hundred…
  12. Submarines, Secrets, and Spies · 19.01.1999 · 55 dk
    At the height of the Cold War, US subs gathered secrets that neither spies nor satellites could expose. Until recently, almost nobody knew the hidden history of…
  13. Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvin · 06.10.1999 · 55 dk
    When George Mallory was asked why he was willing to risk his life to climb Mount Everest in 1924 he simply replied "Because it's there." In Nova Video Library: …
  14. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Fire (1) · 16.02.1999 · 55 dk
    The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. In labor…
  15. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Car Crash (2) · 16.02.1999 · 55 dk
  16. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Plane Crash (3) · 17.02.1999 · 55 dk
  17. Escape! Because Accidents Happen: Abandon Ship (4) · 17.02.1999 · 55 dk
  18. Battle Alert in the Gulf · 23.02.1999 · 55 dk
  19. Volcanoes of the Deep · 30.03.1999 · 55 dk
  20. Surviving AIDS · 06.04.1999 · 55 dk
    The past five years have seen remarkable progress in both treatment and basic understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. In labor…
Sezon 27 · 21 bölüm
  1. Fall of the Leaning Tower · 05.10.1999 · 55 dk
    Even before it was finished 800 years ago, the Leaning Tower of Pisa - a masterpiece of medieval architecture - began to topple, shaken by earthquakes and sinki…
  2. Time Travel · 12.10.1999 · 55 dk
    In the program, leading physicists delve into the mystery of whether time travel is possible, and if so, how one might go about building a time machine.
  3. The Killer's Trail · 19.10.1999 · 55 dk
    The death of Marilyn Sheppard in 1954 is one of the most famous unsolved murders in America. The indictment of her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, quickly became the…
  4. Island of the Spirits · 02.11.1999 · 55 dk
    In the far north of Japan, thrust out into the north Pacific, is the remote island of Hokkaido. It's a land of towering volcanoes and steaming lakes, marshy val…
  5. Decoding Nazi Secrets · 09.11.1999 · 55 dk
    Most historians agree that by enabling Allied commanders to eavesdrop on German plans, Station X shortened the war by 2 or 3 years. Its decoded messages played …
  6. Voyage of Doom · 23.11.1999 · 55 dk
    Buried in mud beneath the shallow waters of Matagorda Bay in Texas, lay a glorious remnant of one of the most ill-fated voyages of the Age of Discovery. After y…
  7. Electric Heart · 21.12.1999 · 55 dk
    The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades…
  8. Tales from the Hive · 04.01.2000 · 55 dk
    NOVA chronicles a year in the life of a bee colony with stunning images that take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. The documentary team spent a…
  9. Lost on Everest · 18.01.2000 · 55 dk
    The program chronicles a successful 1999 NOVA expedition to investigate the mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine high on Everest in 1924…
  10. Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege (1) · 01.02.2000 · 55 dk
    In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, a team of timber framers and other specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuc…
  11. Diamond Deception · 01.02.2000 · 55 dk
    The film documents the efforts of researchers around the world to create synthetic diamonds, some of which have become so indistinguishable from natural diamond…
  12. Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk (2) · 08.02.2000 · 55 dk
    In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons, and timber framer…
  13. Trillion Dollar Bet · 08.02.2000 · 55 dk
    The film tells the fascinating story of the invention of the Black-Scholes Formula, a mathematical Holy Grail that forever altered the world of finance and earn…
  14. Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island (3) · 15.02.2000 · 55 dk
    The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, showcases the efforts of a team of archeologists, engineers, and other experts to transpor…
  15. Mystery of the First Americans · 15.02.2000 · 55 dk
    In 1996, near Kennewick, Washington, a suspected murder victim is identified by forensic anthropologists as Caucasian - but turns out to be almost 10,000 years …
  16. Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath (4) · 22.02.2000 · 55 dk
    In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, an international crew of archeologists, engineers, and historians designs, builds, and …
  17. Lost Tribes of Israel · 22.02.2000 · 55 dk
    At the heart of Jewish tradition lies the haunting mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Ever since their defeat and banishment by the Assyrians in 722 BC., the…
  18. Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5) · 29.02.2000 · 55 dk
    The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design …
  19. What's Up with the Weather? · 18.04.2000 · 55 dk
    In "What's Up with the Weather?" NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to investigate the science and politics of one of the most controversial issues of the 21st cent…
  20. Stationed in the Stars · 25.04.2000 · 55 dk
    The broadcast explores America's manned space program and the crisis caused by Russia's delay in delivering the critical third piece of the International Space …
  21. The Vikings · 09.05.2000 · 55 dk
    In this two-hour special, NOVA presents a dramatic investigation of a people who were much more than axe-wielding pirates. It features stunning camerawork in Sc…
Sezon 28 · 17 bölüm
  1. Lincoln's Secret Weapon · 24.10.2000 · 55 dk
    The film chronicles an expedition to study and retrieve parts of the USS Monitor, the famous Civil War ironclad, which sank off North Carolina only months after…
  2. Holocaust on Trial · 31.10.2000 · 55 dk
    The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial
  3. Hitler's Lost Sub · 14.11.2000 · 55 dk
    The film follows a six-year odyssey by a group of divers to identify a mysterious U-boat they discovered in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey
  4. Runaway Universe · 21.11.2000 · 55 dk
    The program follows the efforts of two rival teams of astronomers as they search for exploding stars, map out gigantic cosmic patterns of galaxies, and grapple …
  5. Garden of Eden · 28.11.2000 · 55 dk
    The film takes a look at the extraordinary natural history of the Seychelles, an ancient archipelago of about 100 islands scattered between India and Madagascar…
  6. Dying to Be Thin · 12.12.2000 · 55 dk
    The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.
  7. Japan's Secret Garden · 18.12.2000 · 55 dk
    The program chronicles a year in the life of wildlife and people around Lake Biwa, Japan, a cycle that has continued unchanged for thousands of years.
  8. Sultan's Lost Treasure · 16.01.2001 · 55 dk
    The program follows a French-led expedition to recover thousands of porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck off the coast of Brunei…
  9. Vanished! · 30.01.2001 · 55 dk
    The program investigates the mysterious disappearance -- and, half a century later, reappearance -- of Stardust, a civilian aircraft that crashed in the Andes i…
  10. Nazi Prison Escape · 06.02.2001 · 55 dk
    The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.
  11. Lost King of the Maya · 13.02.2001 · 55 dk
    The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Copán, a Classic Maya s…
  12. The Cancer Warrior · 27.02.2001 · 55 dk
    For decades Dr. Judah Folkman struggled against the grain of many in the cancer research community in his quest to pioneer a novel form of cancer treatment. In …
  13. Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor (1) · 27.03.2001 · 55 dk
    In "Tattooed Doctor," the first hour of NOVA's "Survivor M.D." series, emergency-room physician Dr. Tom Tarter eloquently describes some of the challenges and r…
  14. Survivor M.D.: Second Opinions (2) · 03.04.2001 · 55 dk
    In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of train…
  15. Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds (3) · 10.04.2001 · 55 dk
    In 1987 NOVA embarked with seven brilliant, natural-born survivors on the longest-running boot camp in higher education: the nearly decade-long process of train…
  16. Cracking the Code of Life · 17.04.2001 · 55 dk
    This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the race to capture one of the biggest prizes in scientific history: …
  17. Harvest of Fear · 24.04.2001 · 55 dk
    A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed to produce vitamin A…
Sezon 29 · 17 bölüm
  1. Search for a Safe Cigarette · 02.10.2001 · 55 dk
    The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.
  2. 18 Ways to Make a Baby · 09.10.2001 · 55 dk
    The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
  3. Secrets of the Mind · 23.10.2001 · 55 dk
    This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain works.
  4. Sex: Unknown · 30.10.2001 · 55 dk
    The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.
  5. Russia's Nuclear Warriors · 06.11.2001 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from the top Russian politicians and Armageddo…
  6. Bioterror · 13.11.2001 · 55 dk
    The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple with the current threat of anthrax and othe…
  7. Life's Greatest Miracle · 20.11.2001 · 55 dk
    A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nil…
  8. Methuselah Tree · 11.12.2001 · 55 dk
    Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine of California's White…
  9. Flying Casanovas · 25.12.2001 · 55 dk
    The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.
  10. Death Star · 08.01.2002 · 55 dk
    The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
  11. Neanderthals on Trial · 22.01.2002 · 55 dk
    The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
  12. Fireworks · 29.01.2002 · 55 dk
  13. Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies · 05.02.2002 · 55 dk
    The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.
  14. The Missing Link · 26.02.2002 · 55 dk
    A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, includ…
  15. Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance · 26.03.2002 · 55 dk
    In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in…
  16. Why the Towers Fell · 30.04.2002 · 55 dk
    Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
  17. Fire Wars · 07.05.2002 · 55 dk
    In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wi…
Sezon 30 · 16 bölüm
  1. Killer Disease on Campus · 03.09.2002 · 55 dk
    Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
  2. Mysterious Life of Caves · 01.10.2002 · 55 dk
    Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
  3. Lost Roman Treasure · 08.10.2002 · 55 dk
    Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
  4. Galileo's Battle for the Heavens · 29.10.2002 · 55 dk
    In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astoni…
  5. Volcano's Deadly Warning · 12.11.2002 · 55 dk
    In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active volcano Galeras in Co…
  6. Sinking City of Venice · 19.11.2002 · 55 dk
    Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
  7. The Orchid Hunter · 26.11.2002 · 55 dk
    For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dy…
  8. Spies That Fly · 07.01.2003 · 55 dk
    The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote controls of UAVs—or unmanned aerial vehicles.…
  9. Last Flight of Bomber 31 · 14.01.2003 · 55 dk
    On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty-five years later it has suddenly reemerg…
  10. Ancient Creature of the Deep · 21.01.2003 · 55 dk
    NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged since prehistoric times. The program rec…
  11. Battle of the X-Planes · 04.02.2003 · 55 dk
    A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Boeing and Lockheed Martin as each makes fa…
  12. Mountain of Ice · 11.02.2003 · 55 dk
    In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their team of climbers, scientists, and filmma…
  13. Lost Treasures of Tibet · 18.02.2003 · 55 dk
    Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Mustan…
  14. Dirty Bomb · 25.02.2003 · 55 dk
    "Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all but inevitable: a terrorist attack on a m…
  15. Deep Sea Invasion · 01.04.2003 · 55 dk
    In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blanket of waving green fronds stretching aro…
  16. Secret of Photo 51 · 15.04.2003 · 55 dk
    On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for pass…
Sezon 31 · 18 bölüm
  1. Infinite Secrets · 30.09.2003 · 55 dk
    A battered manuscript turns up after 1000 years revealing the mind of the Greek genius Archimedes
  2. Who Killed the Red Baron? · 07.10.2003 · 55 dk
    Forensic experts investigate the most famous aviation mystery of World War 1.
  3. The Elegant Universe: Einstein's Dream (1) · 28.10.2003 · 55 dk
    Part 1, "Einstein's Dream," introduces string theory and shows how modern physics—composed of two theories that are ferociously incompatible—reached its schizop…
  4. The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2) · 28.10.2003 · 55 dk
    Part 2, "String's the Thing," opens with a whimsical scene in a movie theater in which the history of the universe runs backwards to the Big Bang, the moment at…
  5. The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (3) · 04.11.2003 · 55 dk
    Part 3 of "The Elegant Universe” with host Brian Greene shows how Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, aided by others, revolutionized str…
  6. Wright Brothers' Flying Machine · 11.11.2003 · 55 dk
    Relive the engineering challenges that two bicycle makers overcame to become the first in flight.
  7. Magnetic Storm · 18.11.2003 · 55 dk
    Is the magnetic field protecting Earth from deadly radiation about to reverse direction or even dissapear?
  8. Volcano Above the Clouds · 25.11.2003 · 55 dk
    Join a scientific expedition to the glacier-capped summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain.
  9. MARS Dead or Alive · 04.01.2004 · 55 dk
    Go inside NASA's risky field trip to the red planet in this tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle of the $820 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) proj…
  10. Secrets of the Crocodile Caves · 20.01.2004 · 55 dk
    Rare lemurs and crocodiles with bizarre cave-dwelling behavior draw scientists to remote corner of Madagascar.
  11. Dogs and More Dogs · 03.02.2004 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes beyond the wagging tails and floppy ears to reveal surprising insights into the origin and evolutionary strategy of our canine companions. From a wolf…
  12. Descent Into the Ice · 10.02.2004 · 55 dk
    A team of "glacionauts" verntures into a labyrinth of unexplored and hazardous glacier caves on France's Mt. Blanc.
  13. Crash of Flight 111 · 17.02.2004 · 55 dk
    One of the most exhaustive investigations in aviation history reveals telling clues to the cause of a dissaster off Nova Scotia.
  14. Life and Death in the War Zone · 02.03.2004 · 55 dk
    While other reporters were embedded in fighting units during the Iraq War, NOVA was covering the emergency medical response, living night and day with the docto…
  15. Hunt for the Supertwister · 30.03.2004 · 55 dk
    Scientists, meteorologists and storm chasers try to uncover the secrets of F5 tornadoes, the largest, most powerful and most dangerous on Earth. Included are lo…
  16. World in the Balance: The People Paradox (1) · 20.04.2004 · 55 dk
    Nova investigates the impact of forces that are radically changing populations in both rich and poor nations.
  17. World in the Balance: China Revs Up (2) · 20.04.2004 · 55 dk
    Nova investigates the impact of forces that are radically changing populations in both rich and poor nations.
  18. Battle Plan Under Fire · 04.05.2004 · 55 dk
    Can the US military's high tech weaponry prevail against insurgants.
Sezon 32 · 18 bölüm
  1. Origins: Earth is Born · 28.09.2004 · 55 dk
    "Origins: Earth is Born" gives viewers a spectacular glimpse of the tumultuous first billion years of Planet Earth—a time of continuous catastrophe. Vivid anima…
  2. Origins: How Life Began · 28.09.2004 · 55 dk
    "Origins: How Life Began," zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how it happened. Join the hunt for hardy microbes that flourish in the most unlikely places: insi…
  3. Origins: Where Are the Aliens? · 29.09.2004 · 55 dk
    In "Origins: Where are the Aliens?," host astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores such provocative questions as: would "ETs" resemble us or the creatures of…
  4. Origins: Back to the Beginning · 29.09.2004 · 55 dk
    "Origins: Back to the Beginning" explores how the colossal, mind-boggling forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds to emerge. The clue…
  5. The Most Dangerous Woman in America · 12.10.2004 · 55 dk
    Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook that was quaratined for life against her will in the early 1900s.
  6. America's Stone Age Explorers · 09.11.2004 · 55 dk
    Who were the first Ameicans and where did they come from?
  7. Great Escape · 16.11.2004 · 55 dk
    Archeologists excavate Stalag Luft 3, the site of the greatest WWII prisoner escape. Prisoners of the camp are also interviewed.
  8. Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land · 23.11.2004 · 55 dk
    Follow an expedition to a remote cave in the Judean desert, first excavated by the famed Israeli archeologist Yigael Yadin in 1960-61. Yadin uncovered a cache o…
  9. Welcome to Mars · 04.01.2005 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows a team of scientists as the monitor the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit runs into some problems, but Opportunity takes a photograph t…
  10. The Boldest Hoax · 11.01.2005 · 55 dk
    For decades, a fossil skull discovered in Piltdown, England, was hailed as the missing link between apes and humans. Entire careers were built on its authentici…
  11. Supersonic Dream · 18.01.2005 · 55 dk
    A chronicle of the turbulent birth, life and death of the Concorde, the world's first and only supersonic airliner.
  12. The Viking Deception · 08.02.2005 · 55 dk
    Ever since its sensational unveiling by Yale University scholars in October 1965, the Vinland Map has been a lightning rod for passionate debate. Most reviews o…
  13. Saving the National Treasures · 15.02.2005 · 55 dk
    A team of experts takes on the preservation of the origianl Constitution, Declaration of Indipendance and Bill of Rights.
  14. A Daring Flight · 22.02.2005 · 55 dk
    In 1909, Louis Bleriot undertakes a heroic first-ever flight over the English Channel.
  15. Wave That Shook the World · 29.03.2005 · 55 dk
    On December 26, 2004 a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills more than 250,000 people. NOVA takes an in depth look at just what happened on that fateful…
  16. Hitler's Sunken Secret · 08.11.2005 · 55 dk
    Explores the Nazi quest for atomic weapons as it follows a mission to recover barrels of heavy water bound for Berlin from a Norwegian hydroelectric plant.
  17. Newton's Dark Secrets · 15.11.2005 · 55 dk
    The auction of some of Newton's papers early in the 20th century uncovers the fact that he had a side other than the genius mathematician and visionary the worl…
  18. Storm That Drowned a City · 14.12.2005 · 55 dk
    An exploration of the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina details failures of levees and disaster-relief planning; why the city was unprepar…
Sezon 33 · 20 bölüm
  1. Mystery of the Megaflood · 20.09.2005 · 55 dk
    It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that thousand-foot-deep f…
  2. Sinking the Supership · 04.10.2005 · 55 dk
    The search for the wreck of the Yamato, the largest and mightiest battleship ever floated and the pride of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Constructed in absolute …
  3. Einstein's Big Idea · 11.10.2005 · 55 dk
    Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary Special Theory of Relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass…
  4. Volcano Under the City · 01.11.2005 · 55 dk
    A restless mountain threatens a bustling metropolis perched on its flanks.
  5. Hitler's Sunken Secret · 08.11.2005 · 55 dk
    One of the most daring clandestine operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro with its cargo of "heavy water" destined for the…
  6. Newton's Dark Secrets · 15.11.2005 · 55 dk
    He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searchi…
  7. Storm That Drowned a City · 22.11.2005 · 55 dk
    In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and transforming a city of ov…
  8. The Mummy Who Would Be King · 03.01.2006 · 55 dk
    Could a mummy found in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Pharaoh?
  9. Deadly Ascent · 17.01.2006 · 55 dk
    Doctors, rescuers and mountaineers try to determine why people die attempting to climb Mount McKinley.
  10. The Perfect Corpse · 07.02.2006 · 55 dk
    Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well preserved bodies of people buried long ago under peat bogs.
  11. Jewel of the Earth · 14.02.2006 · 55 dk
    David Attenborough probes the mystery of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.
  12. The Ghost Particle · 21.02.2006 · 55 dk
    A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself.
  13. Arctic Passage · 28.02.2006 · 105 dk
    NOVA recreates the expeditions of Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, two Arctic explorers who set out to find the legendary Arctic sea route known as the Nor…
  14. The Great Robot Race: Nova · 28.03.2006 · 55 dk
    Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Majove Desert.
  15. Voyage to the Mystery Moon · 04.04.2006 · 55 dk
    A mission to Saturn and its enigmatic sattelite, Titan, looks for clues to the origins of life.
  16. Dimming the Sun · 18.04.2006 · 55 dk
    Everyone has heard of global warming, but a lesser-known man-made phenomenon has been nearly as powerful at affecting Earth's climate. A look at global dimming,…
  17. Wings of Madness · 07.11.2006 · 55 dk
    Nova reviews the contribution of Alberto Santos Dumont in the early days of aircraft development and his uncanny ability to abandon one line of endeavor for a t…
  18. Family That Walks on All Fours · 14.11.2006 · 55 dk
    This episode focuses on a scientific debate about five siblings in a Turkish family who walk on all fours. When, in 2005, scientist Uner Tan labeled them "genet…
  19. ScienceNOW: Extinction · 03.10.2006 · 57 dk
    The "Nova scienceNOW" magazine delves into a case of mass extinction some 250 million years ago; investigates the 1918 influenza outbreak, which killed as many …
  20. Underwater Dream Machine · 26.12.2006 · 57 dk
    The story of Peter Robbins, an engineer who---at a cost of $1.5 million---built his own submarine (named Alicia) in order to explore sunken German U-boats. Incl…
Sezon 34 · 15 bölüm
  1. Building on Ground Zero · 05.09.2006 · 55 dk
    Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
  2. Mystery of the Megavolcano · 26.09.2006 · 55 dk
    Researchers unearth clues about the greatest Volcanic eruption of the past 100000 years.
  3. The Deadliest Plane Crash · 17.10.2006 · 55 dk
    On March 27, 1977, on the island of Tenerife, two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collided on a fog-blanketed runway, claiming the lives of 583 people in what is st…
  4. Monster of the Milky Way · 31.10.2006 · 52 dk
    Astronomers are closing in on the proof they've sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universe—a supermassive black hole—lurks at the…
  5. Wings of Madness · 07.11.2006 · 55 dk
    The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto-Santos Dumont.
  6. Family That Walks on All Fours · 14.11.2006 · 55 dk
    Experts explore the mysterious story of five siblings living in a remote Turkish village.
  7. Underwater Dream Machine · 26.12.2006 · 55 dk
    Follow one man's dream to engeneer a submarine with panaramic views.
  8. Forgotten Genius · 06.02.2007 · 55 dk
    The grandson of Alabama slaves, Percy Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination…
  9. The Last Great Ape · 13.02.2007 · 55 dk
    Scientists return to the jungles of Congo to further explore the peaceful lives of bonobos.
  10. Kings of Camouflage · 03.04.2007 · 55 dk
    Join NOVA on a voyage beneath the waves, where you'll discover a bizarre, alien-like creature like no other. It's an animal with eight sucker-covered arms growi…
  11. First Flower · 17.04.2007 · 55 dk
    In the remote mountains of China, scientist come closer to understanding the origins of flowers.
  12. Saved by the Sun · 24.04.2007 · 55 dk
    As the Earth heats up at a dangerous rate and fossil fuels become scarcer, ordinary citizens and businesses are bypassing the federal government to lead the way…
  13. Pocahontas Revealed · 08.05.2007 · 55 dk
    The recent archeological discovery of the Native American Powhatan village of Werowocomoco, sheds new light on the Jamestown story of Pocahontas.
  14. Bone Diggers · 19.06.2007 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows a group of paleontologists to a cave in southwestern Australia where the fossils of a meat-eating marsupial lion, and other extinct giant animals, …
  15. The Great Inca Rebellion · 26.06.2007 · 55 dk
    Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology, and history, this NOVA/National Geographic special presents new evidence that is changing what we know about the…
Sezon 35 · 17 bölüm
  1. Secrets of the Samurai Sword · 09.10.2007 · 55 dk
    English archers had their longbows, Old West sheriffs had their six-guns, but Japan’s samurai warriors had the most fearsome weapon of all: the razor-sharp, uns…
  2. Ghost in Your Genes · 16.10.2007 · 55 dk
    Experts investigate how a mysterious "second genome" helps determine our biological fates.
  3. Marathon Challenge · 30.10.2007 · 55 dk
    Can anyone run a marathon? How do you run 26.2 miles if you have trouble making it around the block? With good coaching, discipline, and lots of group support, …
  4. Sputnik Declassified · 07.11.2007 · 55 dk
    On October 4, 1957, the Space Age dawned with the red hue of the Communist flag when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite. Sputnik I stunned…
  5. Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial · 13.11.2007 · 55 dk
    Using courtroom reenactments based on transcripts and interviews with those present, NOVA looks at the events of the federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School …
  6. Master of the Killer Ants · 20.11.2007 · 55 dk
    The Mofu people of northern Cameroon have a close relationship with insects, in particular, the red driver ants which they use to combat termites.
  7. Missing in MiG Alley · 18.12.2007 · 55 dk
    In the early 1950s, epic battles unfolded in the skies over North Korea as American and Russian fighters faced off in history's first jet war. This program expl…
  8. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold · 08.01.2008 · 55 dk
    Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of…
  9. Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero · 15.01.2008 · 55 dk
    Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of…
  10. Secrets of the Parthenon · 29.01.2008 · 55 dk
    For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, and disfigured by…
  11. Astrospies · 12.02.2008 · 55 dk
    Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the moon in the 1960s. But few know that both countries als…
  12. Ape Genius · 19.02.2008 · 55 dk
    At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, and then uses this rudimentary spear to skewer …
  13. The Four Winged Dinosaur · 26.02.2008 · 55 dk
    A look at the 2002 discovery of a four-winged crow-sized dinosaur fossil dubbed Microraptor, which has rekindled the scientific debate over the origins of fligh…
  14. Cracking the Maya Code · 08.04.2008 · 55 dk
    The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn…
  15. Car of the Future · 22.04.2008 · 55 dk
    Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's Car Talk, explore new technologies and ideas for the future of automobiles.
  16. A Walk to Beautiful · 13.05.2008 · 55 dk
    In this award-winning documentary, a difficult journey that begins in hopelessness and shame for thousands of women in Ethiopia ends in a productive new life. T…
  17. Lord of the Ants · 20.05.2008 · 55 dk
    At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his "little savage" phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. In "Lord of the Ants," NOVA profiles this s…
Sezon 36 · 17 bölüm
  1. Arctic Dinosaurs · 07.10.2008 · 55 dk
    Most people imagine dinosaurs lurking in warm locales with swamps and jungles, dining on vegetation and each other. But "Arctic Dinosaurs" reveals that many spe…
  2. Space Shuttle Disaster · 14.10.2008 · 55 dk
    At the end of a nearly flawless 15-day mission in early 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing the crew …
  3. Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives · 21.10.2008 · 55 dk
    Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics.
  4. Hunting The Hidden Dimension · 28.10.2008 · 55 dk
    Fractals are more than just pretty pictures. These simple but sophisticated equations describe the world we live in, from forest growth patterns to the beating …
  5. Alien From Earth · 11.11.2008 · 55 dk
    The 2004 discovery of tiny human fossil bones on the island of Flores, Indonesia, raised new—and controversial—speculation about the history of the human race. …
  6. The Bible's Buried Secrets · 18.11.2008 · 55 dk
    An archeological detective story tackling some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, wh…
  7. Ocean Animal Emergency · 25.11.2008 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes you inside a very special ER to witness the efforts of wildlife veterinarians as they fight to save their animal patients as well as to uncover the c…
  8. Is There Life On Mars? · 30.12.2008 · 55 dk
    After four decades of fly-by probes, orbiters, landers, and rovers, the quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever. NOVA goes behind the scenes of the lat…
  9. The Big Energy Gamble · 20.01.2009 · 55 dk
    As Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger launches a dramatic and controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency. …
  10. The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies · 27.01.2009 · 55 dk
    Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To…
  11. The Spy Factory · 03.02.2009 · 55 dk
    In this program, an eye-opening documentary on the National Security Agency by best-selling author James Bamford and Emmy Award-winning producer Scott Willis, N…
  12. Rat Attack · 24.02.2009 · 55 dk
    Once every 48 years, bamboo forests in parts of northeast India go into exuberant flower. Then, like clockwork, the flowering is invariably followed by a plague…
  13. Extreme Ice · 24.03.2009 · 55 dk
    In collaboration with National Geographic, NOVA follows the exploits of acclaimed photojournalist James Balog and a scientific team as they deploy time-lapse ca…
  14. Last Extinction · 31.03.2009 · 55 dk
    An examination over whether a comet struck the Great Lakes region 12,900 years ago, and whether it caused the extinction of such mega-creatures as the woolly ma…
  15. Doctors' Diaries Pt.1 · 07.04.2009 · 55 dk
    In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigorous endeavor in high…
  16. Doctors' Diaries Pt.2 · 14.04.2009 · 55 dk
    In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigorous endeavor in high…
  17. Musical Minds · 30.06.2009 · 55 dk
    An exploration of the effect of music on the brain via four case studies from neurologist Oliver Sacks book "Musicopia" and the MRI visualizations from Sacks' o…
Sezon 37 · 18 bölüm
  1. Darwin's Darkest Hour · 06.10.2009 · 55 dk
    This two-hour scripted drama tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles Darwin's theory of e…
  2. Hubble's Amazing Rescue · 13.10.2009 · 55 dk
    The best-known scientific instrument in history was dying. After nearly 20 years in space and hundreds of thousands of spectacular images, the Hubble Space Tele…
  3. Lizard Kings · 20.10.2009 · 55 dk
    Though they may look like dragons and inspire stories of man-eating, fire-spitting monsters with long claws, razor-sharp teeth and muscular, whip-like tails, th…
  4. Becoming Human: First Steps · 03.11.2009 · 55 dk
    The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Child” — an amazing, nea…
  5. Becoming Human: Birth of Humanity · 10.11.2009 · 55 dk
    In gripping forensic detail, the second program in “Becoming Human” investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us — “Turkana Boy” — an astonishingly…
  6. Becoming Human: Last Human Standing · 17.11.2009 · 55 dk
    The final program examines the roots of our own species, Homo sapiens, which new evidence pinpoints to southern Africa some 200,000 years ago. New discoveries …
  7. What Are Dreams? · 24.11.2009 · 55 dk
    What are dreams and why do we have them? Are they a window into a hidden realm within us? Science is only just beginning to understand. NOVA joins the leading d…
  8. What Darwin Never Knew · 29.12.2009 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the resear…
  9. Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor · 05.01.2010 · 55 dk
    NOVA dives beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II -- the sinking of the USS Arizona.
  10. Building Pharaoh's Ship · 12.01.2010 · 55 dk
    A magnificent trading vessel embarks on a royal expedition to a mysterious, treasure-laden land called Punt. Is this journey, intricately depicted on the wall o…
  11. Riddles of the Sphinx · 19.01.2010 · 55 dk
    A team of archeologists carries out experiments that reveal the techniques and labor invested in the carving of the Sphinx. The team also unearths new discoveri…
  12. Ghosts of Machu Picchu · 02.02.2010 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins a new generation of archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven’t been touched since the time of the Incas.
  13. Extreme Cave Diving · 09.02.2010 · 55 dk
    "Extreme Cave Diving" follows a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level…
  14. The Pluto Files · 02.03.2010 · 55 dk
    When the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a f…
  15. Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way · 06.04.2010 · 55 dk
    In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
  16. Hunting the Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe · 13.04.2010 · 55 dk
    In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
  17. Mind Over Money · 27.04.2010 · 55 dk
    Exposes the mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on the planet: the human mind and money. Using analysis and experiment, this film …
  18. Mt. St. Helens Back From the Dead · 04.05.2010 · 55 dk
    For 27 years, biologist Charlie Crisafulli has been documenting the dramatic return of plant and animal life to Mt. St. Helens after the 1980 eruption. / When M…
Sezon 38 · 18 bölüm
  1. Building the Great Cathedrals · 19.10.2010 · 55 dk
    Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and other European cities…
  2. Emergency Mine Rescue · 26.10.2010 · 55 dk
    This one-hour film chronicles the fate of the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine in August 2010 and investigates the many challenges …
  3. Trapped in an Elevator · 02.11.2010 · 55 dk
    A documentary examining the ubiquitous transportation device as used in modern day and features a recounting of a real-life horror story of one individual's exp…
  4. Dogs Decoded · 09.11.2010 · 55 dk
    "Dogs Decoded" reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs and investigates new discoveries in genetics that are illuminating t…
  5. Secrets of Stonehenge · 16.11.2010 · 55 dk
    Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are drawn to England to ga…
  6. Quest for Solomon's Mines · 23.11.2010 · 55 dk
    Countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines, trekking through burning deserts and scaling the forbidding mountains of Africa and t…
  7. Secrets Beneath the Ice · 28.12.2010 · 55 dk
    Almost three miles of ice buries most of Antarctica, cloaking a continent half again as large as the United States. But when an Antarctic ice shelf the size of …
  8. Deadliest Earthquakes · 11.01.2011 · 55 dk
    In 2010, several epic earthquakes delivered one of the worst annual death tolls ever recorded. The deadliest strike, in Haiti, killed more than 200,000 people a…
  9. Making Stuff: Stronger · 19.01.2011 · 55 dk
    What is the strongest material in the world? Is it steel, Kevlar, carbon nanotubes, or something entirely new? NOVA kicks off the four-part series "Making Stuff…
  10. Making Stuff: Smaller · 26.01.2011 · 55 dk
    How small can we go? Could we one day have robots taking "fantastic voyages" in our bodies to kill rogue cells? The triumphs of tiny are seen all around us in t…
  11. Making Stuff: Cleaner · 02.02.2011 · 55 dk
    Can innovations in materials science help clean up our world? In "Making Stuff: Cleaner," David Pogue explores the rapidly developing science and business of cl…
  12. Making Stuff: Smarter · 09.02.2011 · 55 dk
    "Making Stuff: Smarter" looks at materials that respond to their environments and even learn, such as an airplane wing that changes shape as it flies. Scientist…
  13. Smartest Machine on Earth · 09.02.2011 · 55 dk
    Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, and the promise of "Hal" from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still just a fantasy. But scientists are ed…
  14. Crash of Flight 447 · 16.02.2011 · 55 dk
    On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives…
  15. Venom: Nature's Killer · 23.02.2011 · 55 dk
    Over the millennia, thousands of creatures have developed that most sophisticated of biological and chemical weapons: venom. These complex chemicals can scrambl…
  16. Japan's Killer Quake · 30.03.2011 · 55 dk
    In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a death toll likely in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and bu…
  17. Power Surge · 20.04.2011 · 55 dk
    Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our leaders try to save ou…
  18. How Smart Are Animals? · 09.02.2011 · 55 dk
    Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. Wh…
Sezon 39 · 19 bölüm
  1. Engineering Ground Zero · 07.09.2011 · 55 dk
    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. With extraordinar…
  2. Surviving the Tsunami · 28.09.2011 · 55 dk
    The earthquake that hit the northern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, was recorded at magnitude 9.0 the worst ever recorded in Japan. It generated an unprecede…
  3. Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone? · 19.10.2011 · 55 dk
    Take a spectacular trip to distant realms of our solar system to discover where secret forms of life may lie hidden. Combining the latest telescope images with …
  4. Iceman Murder Mystery · 26.10.2011 · 55 dk
    He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet Ötzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled f…
  5. The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space? · 02.11.2011 · 55 dk
    Space. It separates you from me, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from each other. It is everywhere in the universe. But to most of us, space is nothing, an …
  6. The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time · 09.11.2011 · 55 dk
    Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet, ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock you: They have no idea…
  7. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap · 16.11.2011 · 55 dk
    Join Brian Greene on a wild ride into the weird realm of quantum physics, which governs the universe on the tiniest of scales. Brian brings quantum mechanics to…
  8. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse? · 23.11.2011 · 55 dk
    Hard as it is to swallow, cutting-edge theories are suggesting that our universe may not be the only universe. Instead, it may be just one of an infinite number…
  9. Deadliest Volcanoes · 04.01.2012 · 55 dk
    Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are…
  10. Bombing Hitler's Dams · 11.01.2012 · 55 dk
    In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in military history: destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartla…
  11. 3D Spies of WWII · 18.01.2012 · 55 dk
    During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors of advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intell…
  12. Mystery of a Masterpiece · 25.01.2012 · 55 dk
    In October 2007, a striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress made world news headlines. Originally sold nine years before for around $20,000, the …
  13. Ice Age Death Trap · 01.02.2012 · 55 dk
    In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mast…
  14. Separating Twins · 08.02.2012 · 55 dk
    This is the incredible story of Trishna and Krishna, twin girls born joined at the head. Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Bangladesh, they had l…
  15. Cracking Your Genetic Code · 28.03.2012 · 55 dk
    What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA—all three billion chemical letters of it—read, stored, and available for analysi…
  16. Hunting the Elements · 04.04.2012 · 55 dk
    Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to t…
  17. Deadliest Tornadoes · 11.04.2012 · 55 dk
    In April 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing more than 360 people. Why was there such an extreme ou…
  18. Why Ships Sink · 18.04.2012 · 55 dk
    Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to shopping malls to ic…
  19. Secrets of the Sun · 25.04.2012 · 55 dk
    It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggeri…
Sezon 40 · 20 bölüm
  1. Secrets of the Viking Sword · 10.10.2012 · 55 dk
    The Vikings were among the fiercest warriors of all time. Yet only a select few carried the ultimate weapon of their era: the feared Ulfberht sword. Fashioned u…
  2. Forensics on Trial · 17.10.2012 · 55 dk
    There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of “CSI” and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. With few established scientific stand…
  3. Mystery of Easter Island · 07.11.2012 · 55 dk
    A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. …
  4. Ultimate Mars Challenge · 14.11.2012 · 55 dk
    Why go back to Mars? Far from dead, Mars holds untold potential. Nearly half a century of Mars exploration has yielded tantalizing clues that Mars may once have…
  5. Inside the Megastorm · 18.11.2012 · 55 dk
    Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this perfect storm make …
  6. Doomsday Volcanoes · 02.01.2013 · 55 dk
    In April, 2010 the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano turned much of Europe into an ash-strewn no-fly zone, stranding millions of travelers. But was…
  7. Decoding Neanderthals · 09.01.2013 · 55 dk
    Examining evidence about Neanderthals that sheds light on the hominids, which died off some 30,000 years ago. Included: geneticist Svante Pääbo's 2010 reconstru…
  8. Rise of the Drones · 23.01.2013 · 55 dk
    Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it takes to g…
  9. Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby? · 30.01.2013 · 55 dk
    In the aftermath of his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh–the Lone Eagle–became the most famous human being on earth. And when …
  10. Building Pharaoh's Chariot · 06.02.2013 · 55 dk
    3,600-year-old reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depict pharaohs and warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some historians claim that…
  11. Earth From Space · 13.02.2013 · 55 dk
    "Earth From Space" is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with…
  12. Mind of a Rampage Killer · 20.02.2013 · 55 dk
    What makes a person walk into a theater or a church or a classroom full of students and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to co…
  13. Meteor Strike · 27.03.2013 · 55 dk
    On February 15, 2013, a 7,000-ton asteroid crashed into the Earth's atmosphere over Russia with the power of 30 Hiroshima bombs. Within days, NOVA crews joined …
  14. Ancient Computer · 03.04.2013 · 55 dk
    In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a 2,000 year-old shipwreck containing a geared bronze mechanism whose workings have puzzled scientists for decades. New …
  15. Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening · 10.04.2013 · 55 dk
    Hidden in the red hills of western Australia are clues to the mysteries of when the Earth was born, how life first arose, and how it transformed the planet.
  16. Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes · 17.04.2013 · 55 dk
    How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues in "Life Explodes." Half a billion years ago, Australia was sti…
  17. Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters · 24.04.2013 · 55 dk
    "Monsters" begins Down Under at the dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs. Host Richard Smith comes face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehisto…
  18. Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures · 01.05.2013 · 55 dk
    In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across southern seas. With…
  19. Manhunt - Boston Bombers · 29.05.2013 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows the manhunt for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers examining the role modern technology played in the case.
  20. Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes · 29.05.2013 · 55 dk
    On May 20, 2013, a ferocious EF5 tornado over a mile wide tore through Moore, Oklahoma, inflicting 24 deaths and obliterating entire neighborhoods. It was the t…
Sezon 41 · 22 bölüm
  1. Ground Zero Supertower · 11.09.2013 · 55 dk
    NOVA kicks off the fall season with a return to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of th…
  2. Megastorm Aftermath · 09.10.2013 · 55 dk
    In October 2012, superstorm Sandy cut a path of devastation across the Caribbean and the East Coast, killing hundreds and doing tens of billions of dollars in d…
  3. Making Stuff Faster · 16.10.2013 · 55 dk
    Ever since humans stood on two feet we have had the basic urge to go faster. But are there physical limits to how fast we can go? David Pogue wants to find out,…
  4. Making Stuff Wilder · 23.10.2013 · 55 dk
    What happens when scientists open up nature's toolbox? In "Making Stuff Wilder," David Pogue explores bold new innovations inspired by the Earth's greatest inve…
  5. Making Stuff Colder · 30.10.2013 · 55 dk
    Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now …
  6. Making Stuff Safer · 06.11.2013 · 55 dk
    The world has always been a dangerous place, so how do we increase our odds of survival? In "Making Stuff Safer," David Pogue explores the cutting-edge research…
  7. Cold Case JFK · 13.11.2013 · 55 dk
    For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. Now, fifty years later, NOVA asks: Could moder…
  8. At the Edge of Space · 20.11.2013 · 55 dk
    Between the blue sky above and the infinite blackness beyond lies a frontier that scientists have only just begun to investigate. In "At the Edge of Space," NOV…
  9. Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday? · 20.11.2013 · 55 dk
    The asteroid that exploded over Siberia—injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities—was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic…
  10. Alien Planets Revealed · 08.01.2014 · 55 dk
    It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a…
  11. Zeppelin Terror Attack · 15.01.2014 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates the technology behind the World War One Zeppelin bombing campaigns, both the airships themselves and the weapons used to try to bring them dow…
  12. Killer Typhoon · 22.01.2014 · 55 dk
    It was the strongest cyclone to hit land in recorded history. On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, whipping the low-lying and dense…
  13. Ghosts of Murdered Kings · 29.01.2014 · 55 dk
    In the rolling hills of Ireland's County Tipperary, a laborer harvesting peat from a dried-up bog spots the remnants of a corpse and stops his machine just in t…
  14. Roman Catacomb Mystery · 05.02.2014 · 55 dk
    Beneath the streets of Rome lies a city of the dead known as the Catacombs—a labyrinth of tunnels, hundreds of miles long, lined with the neatly laid out tombs …
  15. Great Cathedral Mystery · 12.02.2014 · 55 dk
    The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an enduring source of …
  16. Wild Predator Invasion · 02.04.2014 · 55 dk
    Over the last few centuries we have shot, trapped, and skinned the predators that formerly thrived at the top of the food chain in the wild. Wild bears, wolves,…
  17. Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius · 09.04.2014 · 55 dk
    When it comes to intelligence, we humans are clearly the most gifted animals around. But what make us so special? Is it our ability to make and use tools? To so…
  18. Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses · 16.04.2014 · 55 dk
    What is it like to be a dog, a shark, or a bird? Long the subject of human daydreams, this question is now getting serious attention from scientists who study a…
  19. Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest? · 23.04.2014 · 55 dk
    What makes an animal smart? What forces of evolution drive brains to become more complex? Many scientists believe the secret lies in our relationships. Througho…
  20. Why Sharks Attack · 07.05.2014 · 55 dk
    In recent years, an unusual spate of deadly shark attacks has gripped Australia, resulting in five deaths in ten months. At the same time, great white sharks ha…
  21. Escape From Nazi Alcatraz · 14.05.2014 · 55 dk
    Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of B…
  22. D-Day's Sunken Secrets · 28.05.2014 · 55 dk
    On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate Europe from the Nazis. In less than 24 hours, mor…
Sezon 42 · 22 bölüm
  1. Vaccines Calling the Shots · 10.09.2014 · 55 dk
    Diseases that were largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago—whooping cough, measles, mumps—are returning, in part because nervous parents are sk…
  2. Rise of the Hackers · 24.09.2014 · 55 dk
    NOVA goes behind the scenes of the fast-paced world of cryptography to meet the scientists battling to keep our data safe. They are experts in extreme physics, …
  3. Why Planes Vanish · 08.10.2014 · 55 dk
    NOVA tells the inside story of the search for Flight MH370 and meets the key players, from all corners of the globe, who have spent months searching for the los…
  4. Surviving Ebola · 08.10.2014 · 55 dk
    As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victim…
  5. Ben Franklin's Balloons · 22.10.2014 · 55 dk
    NOVA re-creates key flights, including the world’s first manned voyage on November 21, 1783. A descendant of the Montgolfier brothers, whose exploits fascinated…
  6. First Air War · 29.10.2014 · 55 dk
    When World War I began in 1914, the air forces of the opposing nations consisted of handfuls of rickety biplanes from which pilots occasionally took pot shots a…
  7. Bigger Than T. rex · 05.11.2014 · 55 dk
    Follow the paleontologists who are reconstructing this terrifying carnivore, a 53-foot-long behemoth with a huge dorsal sail, scimitar-like claws and superjaws.…
  8. Emperor’s Ghost Army · 12.11.2014 · 55 dk
    To defend himself in the afterlife, the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, was buried in a vast mausoleum accompanied by around 9,000 life-sized terracotta …
  9. Killer Landslides · 19.11.2014 · 55 dk
    In less than two minutes in March, a one-square-mile field of debris slammed into the Washington state community of Oso, killing 41 and destroying nearly 50 hom…
  10. First Man on the Moon · 03.12.2014 · 55 dk
    When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he won instant fame. Yet this accomplished engineer and test pilot was so determined to stay out of the limelight that…
  11. Big Bang Machine · 14.01.2015 · 55 dk
    On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close ma…
  12. Sunken Ship Rescue · 21.01.2015 · 55 dk
    Follow the epic operation to secure, raise, and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and tragically capsized off the coast of Italy on Jan…
  13. Sinkholes—Buried Alive · 28.01.2015 · 55 dk
    These geological hazards have swallowed highways, apartment buildings, horses, camels, even golfers, with monster-size holes cracking the earth from Siberia to …
  14. Colosseum: Roman Death Trap · 11.02.2015 · 55 dk
    One of the ancient world's most iconic buildings, the Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Its graceful lines and harmonious proportions…
  15. Petra: Lost City of Stone · 18.02.2015 · 55 dk
    In a daring experiment, an archaeologist and sculptors team up to carve an iconic temple-tomb to find out how the ancient people of Petra built their city of st…
  16. Hagia Sophia: Istanbul’s Ancient Mystery · 25.02.2015 · 55 dk
    Whether serving as Christian church, Islamic mosque, or secular museum, Hagia Sophia and its saring dome have inspired reverence and awe. For 800 years, it was …
  17. The Great Math Mystery · 15.04.2015 · 55 dk
    Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl o…
  18. Invisible Universe Revealed · 22.04.2015 · 55 dk
    Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor of Hubble's landmar…
  19. Nazi Attack on America · 06.05.2015 · 55 dk
    Long before 9/11, a far deadlier, little-known attack from the ocean depths struck our shores, lasting three-and-a-half years and claiming 5,000 lives. Now, fam…
  20. Lethal Seas · 13.05.2015 · 55 dk
    Sharply rising carbon emissions are entering Earth's seas at a staggering rate, raising their acidity. Learn how scientists are researching the effects and look…
  21. Chasing Pluto · 15.07.2015 · 55 dk
    On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the d…
  22. Nuclear Meltdown Disaster · 29.07.2015 · 55 dk
    NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the one you know about, and the one you likely don’t: the perilously close call at the o…
Sezon 43 · 22 bölüm
  1. Dawn of Humanity · 16.09.2015 · 55 dk
    Deep in a South African cave, an astounding discovery reveals clues to what made us human.
  2. Arctic Ghost Ship · 23.09.2015 · 55 dk
    NOVA presents an exclusive breakthrough in the greatest unsolved mystery in Arctic exploration. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set off to chart the…
  3. Secrets of Noah's Ark · 07.10.2015 · 55 dk
    A team of historians and expert boat builders investigates the fascinating Noah's Ark flood legend and sets out to rebuild a tantalizing, ancient forerunner of …
  4. Cyberwar Threat · 14.10.2015 · 55 dk
    NOVA examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race.
  5. Animal Mummies · 28.10.2015 · 55 dk
    NOVA joins a team of leading Egyptologists who deploy the latest medical imaging to peer beneath the wrappings of Egyptian mummified beasts without damaging the…
  6. Making North America: Origins · 04.11.2015 · 55 dk
    The epic 3 billion-year story of how our continent came to be. From the palm trees that once flourished in Alaska to titanic eruptions that nearly tore the Midw…
  7. Making North America: Life · 11.11.2015 · 55 dk
    How did life emerge on our primeval continent? Why was North America home to so many iconic dinosaurs like T. rex? And how did a huge sea filled with giant mari…
  8. Making North America: Human · 18.11.2015 · 55 dk
    The history of North America since the arrival of humans is chronicled. Natural resources, including gold and oil, have enabled humans to transform the land alm…
  9. Inside Einstein's Mind · 25.11.2015 · 55 dk
    On November 25th, 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: general relativity. The theory transformed our understanding of nature’s laws and the entire histo…
  10. Secret Tunnel Warfare · 06.01.2016 · 55 dk
    During World War I, the Allies and Germans repeatedly struggled to break the hideous stalemate of trench warfare. In the winter of 1916, Allied engineers devise…
  11. Life's Rocky Start · 13.01.2016 · 55 dk
    Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning fl…
  12. Mystery Beneath the Ice · 20.01.2016 · 55 dk
    Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem. But the population of krill is crashing for reasons that continue to baffle the…
  13. Himalayan Megaquake · 27.01.2016 · 55 dk
    On April 25, 2015, a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal. As it ripped across the Himalayas, it wiped out villages and left thousands dead. Hear the harrowing s…
  14. Creatures of Light · 03.02.2016 · 55 dk
    On a summer’s night, there’s nothing more magic than watching the soft glow of fireflies switching on and off. Few other life forms on land can light up the nig…
  15. Memory Hackers · 10.02.2016 · 55 dk
    Memory is the glue that binds our mental lives. Without it, we’d be prisoners of the present, unable to use the lessons of the past to change our future. From o…
  16. Iceman Reborn · 17.02.2016 · 55 dk
    He was stalked, attacked and left to die alone. Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest known natural mummy. Miraculously preserv…
  17. Rise of the Robots · 24.02.2016 · 55 dk
    Machines are everywhere. They run our factory assembly lines and make our coffee. But humanoid robots—machines with human-like capabilities—have long been the s…
  18. Vikings Unearthed · 06.04.2016 · 55 dk
    Uncover the truth behind the legendary Vikings and their epic journey to the Americas.
  19. Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped? · 13.04.2016 · 55 dk
    Alzheimer's ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. Join scientists as they untangle the cause of this tragic illness and go behind the scenes o…
  20. Wild Ways · 20.04.2016 · 55 dk
    Explore how newly established wildlife corridors offer hope to endangered species.
  21. Operation Lighthouse Rescue · 04.05.2016 · 55 dk
    Engineers race to rescue the Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard from the ocean's erosion.
  22. Bombing Hitler's Supergun · 11.05.2016 · 55 dk
    Engineers and World War II historians investigate Hitler's fearsome bank of "superguns."
Sezon 44 · 28 bölüm
  1. 15 Years of Terror · 07.09.2016 · 55 dk
    From 9/11 to today’s crowd-sourced violence, trace how terrorists’ strategies have evolved.
  2. School of the Future · 14.09.2016 · 55 dk
    How the science of learning may change education for all children.
  3. Great Human Odyssey · 05.10.2016 · 55 dk
    Follow our ancient ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa and into every corner of our planet.
  4. Super Tunnel · 12.10.2016 · 55 dk
    Join engineers as they build a massive new railway deep beneath the streets of London.
  5. Treasures of the Earth: Gems · 02.11.2016 · 55 dk
    Gemstones like diamonds, rubies, opal and jade are the ultimate treasures. Delve into Earth's depths to discover how these precious stones are forged and what e…
  6. Treasures of the Earth: Metals · 09.11.2016 · 55 dk
    Gold, bronze, iron, steel... metals are pillars of our civilization, but what makes them so special? Discover their unique properties and explore how our master…
  7. Treasures of the Earth: Power · 16.11.2016 · 55 dk
    Drill down to discover how Earth's natural treasures provide bountiful energy to power our modern world yet are also driving us to seek new, cleaner alternative…
  8. Secrets of the Sky Tombs · 04.01.2017 · 55 dk
    The towering Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that humanity settled. Scaling sheer cliff sides, a team of daring scientists hunts for clues to how …
  9. The Nuclear Option · 11.01.2017 · 55 dk
    Five years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the unprecedented trio of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engi…
  10. Search for the Super Battery · 01.02.2017 · 55 dk
    Explore the hidden world of energy storage and how it holds the keys to a greener future.
  11. Ultimate Cruise Ship · 08.02.2017 · 55 dk
    Join pioneering shipbuilders as they embark on a feat of maritime engineering.
  12. The Origami Revolution · 15.02.2017 · 55 dk
    The centuries-old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is inspiring a scientific revolution. The rules of folding are at the…
  13. Why Trains Crash · 22.02.2017 · 55 dk
    From derailments to head-on collisions to drivers killed at road crossings, deadly train accidents claim dozens of lives each year. But just how unsafe are the …
  14. Holocaust Escape Tunnel · 19.04.2017 · 55 dk
    The Lithuanian city of Vilna, known also as the “Jerusalem of the North”, was one of the most important Jewish centers in the world until World War II, when the…
  15. Building Chernobyl's Megatomb · 26.04.2017 · 55 dk
    Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor.
  16. Chinese Chariot Revealed · 17.05.2017 · 55 dk
    For over 1000 years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields - dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on earth. Now, archaeological findings enable…
  17. Poisoned Water · 31.05.2017 · 55 dk
    NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, but overlooked a critical treatment proce…
  18. Eclipse Over America · 23.08.2017 · 55 dk
    On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. While hordes of citizen…
  19. Ghosts of Stonehenge · 31.08.2017 · 55 dk
    Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe’s prehistoric monuments, and has inspired countless theories to explain who built it and why. Join NOVA …
  20. Death Dive to Saturn · 13.09.2017 · 55 dk
    Aiming to skim less than 2000 miles above the cloud tops, no spacecraft has ever gone so close to Saturn, and hopes are high for incredible observations that co…
  21. Secrets of the Shining Knight · 04.10.2017 · 55 dk
    Once upon a time, knighthood was serious business, and for countless medieval fighters, their armor was what stood between life and death. NOVA challenged a bla…
  22. Secrets of the Forbidden City · 18.10.2017 · 55 dk
    The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and surv…
  23. Killer Volcanoes · 25.10.2017 · 55 dk
    NOVA follows a team of volcano sleuths as they embark on a worldwide hunt for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth into a deep freeze. …
  24. Killer Hurricanes · 01.11.2017 · 55 dk
    Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they weren’t the first. The Great Hurricane of 1780 took nine days to blast i…
  25. Killer Floods · 08.11.2017 · 55 dk
    All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recent times. What trigge…
  26. Extreme Animal Weapons · 22.11.2017 · 55 dk
    From lobster claws and dog teeth to bee stings and snake fangs, every creature depends on a weapon. But some are armed to extremes that make no practical sense—…
  27. Bird Brain · 20.12.2017 · 55 dk
    Watch astonishing tests of avian aptitude: parrots that can plan for the future, jackdaws that can “read” human faces, and crows that can solve multi-step puzzl…
  28. Day the Dinosaurs Died · 27.12.2017 · 55 dk
    66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, triggering a chain of events that coincide with the end of the dinosaurs. But experts have…
Sezon 45 · 23 bölüm
  1. Black Hole Apocalypse · 10.01.2018 · 55 dk
    Astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin talks about black holes and their importance to the universe.
  2. The Impossible Flight · 31.01.2018 · 55 dk
    For the first time, two intrepid pilots fly a solar-powered airplane around the world.
  3. First Face of America · 07.02.2018 · 55 dk
    Discover remains of a 13,000 year-old teenager in an underwater cave in Mexico.
  4. Great Escape at Dunkirk · 14.02.2018 · 55 dk
    How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940.
  5. Prediction by the Numbers · 28.02.2018 · 55 dk
    Discover why some predictions succeed and others fail as experts forecast the future.
  6. Decoding the Weather Machine · 18.04.2018 · 55 dk
    Disastrous hurricanes. Widespread droughts and wildfires. Withering heat. Extreme rainfall. It is hard not to conclude that something’s up with the weather, and…
  7. Rise of the Superstorms · 27.06.2018 · 55 dk
    In just one devastating month, Houston, Florida, and the Caribbean were changed forever. In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes swept in from the Atlantic one…
  8. Transplanting Hope · 26.09.2018 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of…
  9. Operation Bridge Rescue · 03.10.2018 · 55 dk
    Follow the race to rebuild the Old Blenheim Bridge in New York State, an icon of 19th century American engineering, destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Watch …
  10. Volatile Earth: Volcano on Fire · 10.10.2018 · 55 dk
    Climb with volcano experts to the summit of Nyiragongo, a highly active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Twice in recent memory it has erupted, …
  11. Volatile Earth: Volcano on the Brink · 10.10.2018 · 55 dk
    Explore Nyamuragira, one of the world’s most active and mysterious volcanoes in Africa. Decades of civil strife have prevented scientists from investigating the…
  12. Addiction · 17.10.2018 · 55 dk
    Hear firsthand from individuals struggling with addiction and follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they investigate why addiction is not a …
  13. Flying Supersonic · 24.10.2018 · 55 dk
    NOVA takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner, the Concorde. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed e…
  14. Last B-24 · 07.11.2018 · 55 dk
    Dive to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea in search of the Tulsamerican, a B-24 bomber that crashed off the coast of Croatia during World War II. In 2010, divers l…
  15. Thai Cave Rescue · 14.11.2018 · 55 dk
    In July 2018, the world held its breath as an international team of cave divers endeavored to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded deep in a flooded c…
  16. World's Fastest Animal · 21.11.2018 · 55 dk
    See the world through the eyes of nature’s fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Though once perilously endangered in the U.S., this spectacular predator is now…
  17. Apollo's Daring Mission · 26.12.2018 · 55 dk
    Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when A…
  18. NOVA Wonders What Are Animals Saying? · 25.04.2018 · 55 dk
    From singing whales and squeaking bats to thumping spiders and clicking dolphins, the world is filled with the exotic sounds of our fellow creatures. What are t…
  19. NOVA Wonders What's Living in You? · 02.05.2018 · 55 dk
    Whether they make you fat, fart, or freak out, microbes play a central role in your life. Right beneath your nose—on your face, in your gut, and everywhere in b…
  20. NOVA Wonders Are We Alone? · 09.05.2018 · 55 dk
    The search for extraterrestrial life is an age-old quest. But recent breakthroughs make today an era unlike any in the history of astronomy. From the exhilarati…
  21. NOVA Wonders Can We Build a Brain? · 16.05.2018 · 55 dk
    Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, inter…
  22. NOVA Wonders Can We Make Life? · 23.05.2018 · 55 dk
    "It's alive!" Since Dr. Frankenstein spoke those famous words, we've been alternately enthralled and terrified by the idea of creating life in the lab. Now, a r…
  23. NOVA Wonders What's the Universe Made Of? · 30.05.2018 · 55 dk
    The universe is hiding something. In fact, it is hiding a lot. Everything we experience on Earth, the stars and galaxies we see in the cosmos—all the “normal” m…
Sezon 46 · 23 bölüm
  1. Pluto and Beyond · 02.01.2019 · 55 dk
    Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA’s most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts…
  2. Einstein's Quantum Riddle · 09.01.2019 · 55 dk
    Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,” but today quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from computers to cryptography. Physicist…
  3. Kïlauea: Hawai'i on Fire · 23.01.2019 · 55 dk
    Journey to Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which sent rivers of lava through communities and into the sea when it erupted in 2018. A group of scientists and locals in…
  4. Decoding the Great Pyramid · 06.02.2019 · 55 dk
    New archeological evidence sheds light on the stunning engineering of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  5. Rise of the Rockets · 13.02.2019 · 55 dk
    With new technologies, NASA and private companies are promising a new renaissance in space travel.
  6. The Next Pompeii · 20.02.2019 · 55 dk
    In the shadow of Vesuvius and Pompeii, a lesser-known volcano puts the city of Naples at risk.
  7. Saving the Dead Sea · 24.04.2019 · 55 dk
    Scientists, engineers and political leaders devise a plan to save the Dead Sea, whose levels have declined by more than 65 feet since 1976.
  8. Inside the Megafire · 08.05.2019 · 55 dk
    Scientists try to determine the cause for the increasing megafire threat by exploring the physics of fire, how firestorms move and travel and by analyzing aeria…
  9. First Horse Warriors · 15.05.2019 · 55 dk
    Canadian anthropologist Niobe Thompson travels to sites in Kazakhstan, genetics labs in Denmark and anthropology museums in Russia to unlock mysteries surroundi…
  10. Lost Viking Army · 22.05.2019 · 55 dk
    Forensic archaeologist Cat Jarman and her team investigate the Great Heathen army, a legendary Viking fighting force that invaded England in the 9th century.
  11. Back to the Moon · 10.07.2019 · 55 dk
    On the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, NOVA looks ahead to the hoped-for dawn of a new age in lunar exploration. This time, governments…
  12. The Planets: Inner Worlds · 24.07.2019 · 55 dk
    The rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all have similar origins, but only one supports life.
  13. The Planets: Mars · 24.07.2019 · 55 dk
    The dry, red planet Mars was once a blue water world studded with active volcanoes and may have even had the ingredients to support life.
  14. The Planets: Jupiter · 31.07.2019 · 55 dk
    Jupiter's gravitational force made it a wrecking ball as it barreled through the early solar system, but it also helped shape life on Earth as it brought comets…
  15. The Planets: Saturn · 07.08.2019 · 55 dk
    Nasa's Cassini reveals the mysteries of Saturn's rings and new hope for life on one of its moons.
  16. The Planets: Ice Worlds · 14.08.2019 · 55 dk
    Uranus and Neptune's unexpected rings, supersonic winds and dozens of moons; an up-close view of Pluto before exploring the Kuiper belt.
  17. Why Bridges Collapse · 16.10.2019 · 55 dk
    Join experts as they compare what happened in several deadly bridge collapses across America.
  18. Look Who's Driving · 23.10.2019 · 55 dk
    Self-driving cars may one day be big business, but will they ever be safer than human drivers?
  19. Rise of the Mammals · 30.10.2019 · 55 dk
    Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. An amazing trove of fossils reveals how mammals took over, ultim…
  20. Dead Sea Scroll Detectives · 06.11.2019 · 55 dk
    Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, these fragile parchment relics have intrigued scholars, religious leaders, and profiteers alike. The 2,000-y…
  21. Decoding Da Vinci · 13.11.2019 · 55 dk
    How Leonardo da Vinci used science to create his legendary artwork. Included: why Mona Lisa's smile is so captivating—and what it took to create it.
  22. The Violence Paradox · 20.11.2019 · 55 dk
    Is violence actually declining? If so, why? And can we build a more peaceful future?
  23. Animal Espionage · 27.11.2019 · 55 dk
    Camera technology is revolutionizing the study of animals—without them even noticing.
Sezon 47 · 16 bölüm
  1. Polar Extremes · 05.02.2020 · 55 dk
    Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places–beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic–NOVA uncovers the bizarre hi…
  2. Dog Tales · 12.02.2020 · 55 dk
    Dogs have long been dependable companions by our sides. But it wasn’t always that way, and a look at their closest living relative, the wolf, makes it clear why…
  3. Cat Tales · 19.02.2020 · 55 dk
    Worshipped as a goddess, condemned as satanic, and spun into a stunning array of breeds, cats have long fascinated humans. But did we ever really domesticate th…
  4. Mysteries of Sleep · 26.02.2020 · 55 dk
    From fruit flies to whales, virtually every animal sleeps. But why? Why do we need to spend nearly a third of our lives in such a defenseless state? Scientists …
  5. Cuba's Cancer Hope · 01.04.2020 · 55 dk
    When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they’ve developed lung cancer vaccines …
  6. The Truth About Fat · 08.04.2020 · 55 dk
    The mysteries of fat and its role in hormone production, hunger and pregnancy.
  7. Decoding COVID-19 · 13.05.2020 · 55 dk
    The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has upended life as we know it in a matter of months. But at the same time, an unprecedented global effort to understand and contain …
  8. Eagle Power · 20.05.2020 · 55 dk
    Eagles dominate the skies. But what makes these predators so special? Researchers study one special bird—and stunning up-close footage reveals her exceptional s…
  9. Human Nature / Gene-Editing Reality Check · 09.09.2020 · 90 dk
    With an extraordinary new technology called CRISPR, we can now edit DNA—including human DNA. But how far should we go? Gene-editing promises to eliminate certai…
  10. Secret Mind of Slime · 16.09.2020 · 55 dk
    Scientists investigate the bizarre “intelligence” of slime molds, which appear to learn and make decisions—without a brain. These cunning, single-celled blobs c…
  11. A to Z: The First Alphabet · 23.09.2020 · 55 dk
    Writing shaped our world and the rise of human knowledge, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient goddesses and kings. Follow the evolution of the written…
  12. A to Z: How Writing Changed the World · 30.09.2020 · 55 dk
    Just as writing changed the course of human history, the evolution of paper and printing revolutionized the spread of information. The printing press kicked off…
  13. Nature's Fear Factor · 14.10.2020 · 55 dk
    For animals in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, the normal balance of competition and predation was upended when a war wiped out the top predators. The rem…
  14. Touching the Asteroid · 21.10.2020 · 55 dk
    In October 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx attempts to reach out and grab a piece of an asteroid named Bennu to bring it back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx…
  15. Can We Cool the Planet? · 28.10.2020 · 55 dk
    As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if we need solutions beyond reducing emissions. Enter geoengineering. From sucking carbon stra…
  16. Saving Notre Dame · 25.11.2020 · 55 dk
    When the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral erupted in flames in April of 2019, firefighters battled for nine grueling hours to save the historic landmark. Still, Par…
Sezon 48 · 25 bölüm
  1. Secrets in Our DNA · 14.01.2021 · 55 dk
    The value of DNA testing and the risks of entrusting this private data to commercial enterprises and online databases.
  2. Beyond the Elements: Reactions · 03.02.2021 · 55 dk
    Just about every solid, liquid, or gas in the world as we know it begins with reactions between individual atoms and molecules. Host David Pogue dives into the …
  3. Beyond the Elements: Indestructible · 10.02.2021 · 55 dk
    Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers …
  4. Beyond the Elements: Life · 17.02.2021 · 55 dk
    Without the chemistry of photosynthesis, ozone, and a molecule called Rubisco, none of us would be here. So how did we get so lucky? To find out, host David Pog…
  5. Looking for Life on Mars · 24.02.2021 · 55 dk
    NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a rocky, ancient river delta. The rover will stow samples for pos…
  6. Picture a Scientist/ Search Engine Breakdown · 14.04.2021 · 110 dk
    Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers …
  7. Reef Rescue · 21.04.2021 · 55 dk
    Coral reefs are not just beautiful, they are also home to over a quarter of all marine life and are crucial to human societies around the globe. But as the clim…
  8. Fighting for Fertility · 12.05.2021 · 55 dk
    What causes infertility, and how can assisted reproductive technologies help? Follow the journeys of people navigating fertility challenges from structural ineq…
  9. Hindenburg: The New Evidence · 19.05.2021 · 55 dk
    80 years after the world’s largest airship ignited in a giant fireball, newly discovered footage sparks a reinvestigation of what exactly caused the Hindenburg …
  10. Great Electric Airplane Race · 26.05.2021 · 55 dk
    Can new emission-free electric planes replace our polluting airliners and revolutionize personal transportation in our cities? NOVA takes you for a ride in some…
  11. Ship That Changed the World · 02.06.2021 · 55 dk
    Five centuries ago, the Age of Exploration and Europe’s imperial colonization of far-off lands was launched by a revolution in ship design that made long-distan…
  12. Bat Superpowers · 15.09.2021 · 55 dk
    Bats have been implicated in deadly epidemics such as COVID-19 and Ebola, yet scientists are discovering evidence that they may hold a key to a longer and healt…
  13. The Cannabis Question · 29.09.2021 · 55 dk
    As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA investigates the latest scientific evidence for its potential benefits and risks, and how criminalization has dispropo…
  14. Particles Unknown · 06.10.2021 · 55 dk
    Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are the universe’s most common yet most elusive and baffling particle. NOVA joins an international team of neutri…
  15. Arctic Drift · 13.10.2021 · 55 dk
    Join scientists on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. Experts from over twenty different nations join the voyage of the massive Polarste…
  16. Edible Insects · 20.10.2021 · 55 dk
    From crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming planet. From Thailand to…
  17. NOVA Universe Revealed: Age of Stars · 27.10.2021 · 55 dk
    The sun is our life-giving source of light, heat, and energy, and new discoveries are unraveling its epic history. Join NOVA on a spectacular voyage to discover…
  18. NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way · 03.11.2021 · 55 dk
    Straddling the night sky, the Milky Way reminds us of our place in the galaxy we call home. But what shaped this giant spiral of stars and what will be its dest…
  19. NOVA Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds · 10.11.2021 · 55 dk
    It’s an age-old question: are we alone? Or do other lifeforms and intelligences thrive on worlds far beyond our own? Ultra-sensitive telescopes and dogged detec…
  20. NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes · 17.11.2021 · 55 dk
    Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride to explore nature’s strangest and most powerful objects. Black holes can reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of spa…
  21. NOVA Universe Revealed: Big Bang · 24.11.2021 · 55 dk
    The Big Bang is when many think the universe started and time itself began. But what clues can we discover about this ultimate genesis of everything? And can we…
  22. High-Risk High-Rise · 05.01.2022 · 55 dk
    Gleaming symbols of prestige, skyscrapers are an ingenious way to save space in dense urban areas. But even as we devise ways to defend them against fires, wind…
  23. Butterfly Blueprints · 12.01.2022 · 55 dk
    The hidden scientific secrets of butterflies reveal them to be more inventive and resilient than we ever imagined. Follow their extraordinary life cycle and mig…
  24. Alaskan Dinosaurs · 19.01.2022 · 55 dk
    A team of intrepid paleontologists discovers that dinosaurs thrived in the unlikeliest of places—the cold and dark of winter in the Arctic Circle. How did they …
  25. Ancient Maya Metropolis · 26.01.2022 · 55 dk
    The ancient ancestors of today’s Maya people thrived in large sophisticated cities across Central America for centuries. Why, around 750 CE, did they begin to a…
Sezon 49 · 19 bölüm
  1. Arctic Sinkholes · 02.02.2022 · 55 dk
    In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.
  2. Secrets in the Scat · 09.02.2022 · 55 dk
    Scott Burnett is “Scatman”—an Australian ecologist on the trail of the secrets of poop. By identifying and analyzing animal scat for DNA and hormones, he discov…
  3. Great Mammoth Mystery · 16.02.2022 · 55 dk
    Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A…
  4. Augmented · 23.02.2022 · 55 dk
    Follow the dramatic personal journey of Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs. At age 17, Herr’s legs were amputated after …
  5. Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's · 06.04.2022 · 55 dk
    Follow three women at risk of developing Alzheimer’s as they join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease – sharing their ups and downs, anxiously …
  6. Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence · 11.05.2022 · 55 dk
    In the Badlands of North Dakota, a team of scientists think they might have found the fossilized remains of animals killed on the day an asteroid struck Earth 6…
  7. Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day · 11.05.2022 · 54 dk
    In the second episode of this two-part series, the search continues for signs of what happened on the day the dinosaurs died. Scientists uncover extremely rare …
  8. Why Ships Crash · 18.05.2022 · 54 dk
    When the bow of the colossal Ever Given container ship plowed into the bank of the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, international supply chains ground to a halt. W…
  9. Ice Age Footprints · 25.05.2022 · 54 dk
    Thousands of ancient footprints stretch for miles across New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, capturing moments when Ice Age humans encountered now-extinct b…
  10. Ultimate Space Telescope · 13.07.2022 · 54 dk
    How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most complex m…
  11. Saving Venice · 28.09.2022 · 54 dk
    Rising seas and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Can the city’s new hi-tech flood barrier save it? Discover the innovative projects and feats of enginee…
  12. Ending HIV in America · 05.10.2022 · 54 dk
    Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? How did scientists tackle one of the most elusive d…
  13. Computers v. Crime · 12.10.2022 · 54 dk
    In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be…
  14. Can Psychedelics Cure? · 19.10.2022 · 54 dk
    Hallucinogenic drugs—popularly called psychedelics—have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many …
  15. Ocean Invaders · 26.10.2022 · 54 dk
    Lionfish–long prized in home aquariums–have invaded the Atlantic, and are now one of the ocean’s most successful invasive species, wreaking havoc in waters acro…
  16. Nazca Desert Mystery · 02.11.2022 · 54 dk
    One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200…
  17. Crypto Decoded · 09.11.2022 · 53 dk
    From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the social …
  18. Zero to Infinity · 16.11.2022 · 54 dk
    Discover how the concepts of zero and infinity revolutionized mathematics.
  19. Rebuilding Notre Dame · 14.12.2022 · 54 dk
    In April 2019, the world watched as a devastating fire almost destroyed Paris’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. Go behind the scenes with a team of engineers, maso…
Sezon 50 · 18 bölüm
  1. London Super Tunnel · 01.02.2023 · 54 dk
    Thousands of engineers, technicians and workers race to build Europe’s biggest construction project–London’s new railroad, the Elizabeth Line.
  2. Star Chasers of Senegal · 08.02.2023 · 54 dk
    A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 million miles from Earth thought to hold …
  3. Ancient Builders of the Amazon · 15.02.2023 · 54 dk
    Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished for c…
  4. New Eye on the Universe · 22.02.2023 · 54 dk
    Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try t…
  5. Weathering the Future · 12.04.2023 · 54 dk
    It’s hard not to notice: our weather is changing. From longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafires and multi-year droughts, the U.S. is …
  6. Chasing Carbon Zero · 26.04.2023 · 54 dk
    The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in half by 2030. Is it possible? And…
  7. Saving the Right Whale · 03.05.2023 · 54 dk
    North Atlantic right whales are among the planet’s most critically endangered large ocean mammals. With fewer than 350 remaining as of 2023, they could be extin…
  8. Hidden Volcano Abyss · 10.05.2023 · 53 dk
    In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves around the world. Throu…
  9. Your Brain: Perception Deception (1) · 17.05.2023 · 54 dk
    Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you pe…
  10. Your Brain: Who's in Control? (2) · 24.05.2023 · 54 dk
    Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Dive into the latest research on the subconscious with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Sleepwalking, anesth…
  11. Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky · 04.10.2023 · 54 dk
    Today, Earth is enveloped by a thin veil of gas, a narrow band of atmosphere that protects a world covered in lush green vegetation, deep blue oceans, and abund…
  12. Ancient Earth: Frozen · 11.10.2023 · 54 dk
    700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole—a global deep freeze that held the planet in a stranglehold, threatening the …
  13. Ancient Earth: Life Rising · 18.10.2023 · 54 dk
    For billions of years, life teemed in the oceans of planet Earth while the land was desolate and inhospitable. So how did life make the leap to land? Scientists…
  14. Ancient Earth: Inferno · 25.10.2023 · 54 dk
    252 million years ago, the most devastating mass extinction of all time abruptly wiped out around 90% of all species on Earth. The culprits were the biggest vol…
  15. Ancient Earth: Humans · 01.11.2023 · 53 dk
    The story of Earth can only be told because now, 4.5 billion years into its existence, a technological and self-aware animal species roams its surface, able to …
  16. Inside China's Tech Boom · 08.11.2023 · 53 dk
    In the span of just a few decades, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower. But how did it get here and where is it headed? Take an insid…
  17. The Battle to Beat Malaria · 15.11.2023 · 54 dk
    Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions …
  18. Lee and Liza's Family Tree · 22.11.2023 · 54 dk
    Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history, and see how science…
Sezon 51 · 18 bölüm
  1. When Whales Could Walk · 31.01.2024 · 54 dk
    In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, …
  2. Easter Island Origins · 07.02.2024 · 53 dk
    How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 30…
  3. Building the Eiffel Tower · 14.02.2024 · 53 dk
    Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower smashed the rec…
  4. Hunt for the Oldest DNA · 21.02.2024 · 54 dk
    For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and reveal a lost world …
  5. A.I. Revolution · 27.03.2024 · 54 dk
    A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? From cancer cures to Terminator-style takeovers, leading e…
  6. Great American Eclipse · 03.04.2024 · 54 dk
    Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon's shadow is sweeping from Texas to Maine, as the U.S. witnesses its …
  7. Secrets in Your Data · 15.05.2024 · 54 dk
    Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling…
  8. Decoding the Universe: Cosmos · 22.05.2024 · 54 dk
    How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 yea…
  9. Solar System: Storm Worlds · 02.10.2024 · 54 dk
    Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Eart…
  10. Solar System: Strange Worlds · 09.10.2024 · 54 dk
    From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular rings of Saturn, discover how th…
  11. Solar System: Volcano Worlds · 16.10.2024 · 54 dk
    All around our solar system, volcanoes are powerful shapers of worlds. Next door on Mars is Olympus Mons, a giant volcanic mountain more than twice the size of …
  12. Solar System: Icy Worlds · 23.10.2024 · 54 dk
    Ice might seem familiar to us on Earth, but out in the solar system, it can get quite exotic. From Uranus’s ultra hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ic…
  13. Solar System: Wandering Worlds · 30.10.2024 · 54 dk
    The classic view of our solar system contains eight orderly planets, some with moons in neat orbits – but when we look closer, we discover a bunch of stuff miss…
  14. Decoding the Universe: Quantum · 06.11.2024 · 54 dk
    When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird. Welcome to the quantum universe, where particles can spin…
  15. Building Stuff: Boost It! · 13.11.2024 · 54 dk
    Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and shape the world way beyond our natural gi…
  16. Building Stuff: Reach It! · 20.11.2024 · 54 dk
    From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve imagined and invented and built our way from one place …
  17. Building Stuff: Change It! · 27.11.2024 · 54 dk
    Thousands of years of human innovation have allowed us to shape the environment to improve lives. The consequences of our activities are not always benign – but…
  18. Lost Tombs of Notre Dame · 18.12.2024 · 54 dk
    After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone floor. Who is buried in them, and what s…
Sezon 52 · 20 bölüm
  1. What Are UFOs? · 22.01.2025 · 54 dk
    Can science reveal the secrets of mysterious objects seen in our skies?
  2. Extreme Airport Engineering · 29.01.2025 · 54 dk
    Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs.
  3. Dino Birds · 05.02.2025 · 54 dk
    Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.
  4. Egypt's Tombs of Amun · 12.02.2025 · 54 dk
    A long-lost ancient cemetery opens the door to a unique period in Egyptian history.
  5. Pompeii's Secret Underworld · 19.02.2025 · 54 dk
    Archaeologists uncover new truths about Pompeii, a wealthy Roman playground with dark secrets.
  6. Baltimore Bridge Collapse · 26.02.2025 · 54 dk
    Follow the investigation into the deadly container ship collision that closed the Port of Baltimore.
  7. Revolutionary War Weapons · 09.04.2025 · 54 dk
    Explore key military technologies in the American colonies’ fight for freedom.
  8. Secrets of the Forest · 16.04.2025 · 54 dk
    Follow scientists in a quest to understand how complex forest ecosystems can help cool our planet.
  9. Critical Condition: Health In Black America · 30.04.2025 · 97 dk
    Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to suffer from chronic diseases than Whites. Why? From false beliefs that permeate modern medicine to life experience…
  10. Ultimate Crash Test: Countdown · 07.05.2025 · 53 dk
    What really happens in a multi-vehicle pileup? A first-of-its-kind experiment aims to stage a high speed crash to gain new insights on car safety. But how can t…
  11. Ultimate Crash Test: Impact · 14.05.2025 · 53 dk
    Car safety experts just pulled off a first-of-its-kind remote controlled multi-vehicle pile up. Now investigators are put to the test as they analyze the data a…
  12. Human: Origins · 17.09.2025 · 54 dk
    Where did humans come from, and what makes us unique? Discover the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens, and the crucial moments of innovation, communication, and…
  13. Human: Journeys · 24.09.2025 · 53 dk
    Follow Homo Sapiens as they venture across the world, farther than any other human species. See how they invented new tools to thrive in challenging environment…
  14. Human: Neanderthal Encounters · 01.10.2025 · 53 dk
    For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens arrived, and how did these encounters change our species …
  15. Human: Into the Americas · 08.10.2025 · 53 dk
    Follow ancient humans' perilous journey into the Americas, where a frigid Ice Age landscape, mammoths, and other fearsome beasts tested their resilience.
  16. Human: Building Empires · 15.10.2025 · 54 dk
    Discover how Homo sapiens transformed from nomads to empire builders. Witness the innovations – from animal domestication to writing – that revolutionized ancie…
  17. Ancient Desert Death Trap · 22.10.2025 · 53 dk
    Archaeologists investigate dozens of strange Stone Age megastructures in the Arabian desert. They're so big that their true form is visible only from the air, y…
  18. Superfloods · 29.10.2025 · 53 dk
    In September 2024, Hurricane Helene dumped 14 inches of rain on North Carolina, triggering flash floods and killing more than 100 people. Why are these floods o…
  19. Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build · 05.11.2025 · 54 dk
    From ammonia leaks to Space Shuttle disasters to a spacewalk gone terribly wrong, astronauts and Mission Control insiders relive the most terrifying moments dur…
  20. Operation Space Station: Science and Survival · 12.11.2025 · 54 dk
    Witness life-or-death decisions 250 miles above Earth, as astronauts and Mission Control work together to survive moments of high danger on board humanity's rem…
Sezon 53 · 17 bölüm
  1. Asteroids: Spark of Life? · 21.01.2026 · 54 dk
    What if asteroids, long feared as destroyers of life, were key to our existence? Explore a revolutionary theory that these violent collisions provided the essen…
  2. Angkor: Hidden Jungle Empire · 28.01.2026 · 54 dk
    Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the ruins of Angkor, a marvel of urban engineering and seat of the once-mighty Khmer Empire. New discoveries are revealing how …
  3. Can Dogs Talk? · 04.02.2026 · 54 dk
    Can dogs understand what we say—and talk back? Witness amazing moments from a major experiment, as thousands of dogs use speech buttons. Pet owners are convince…
  4. Mammal Origins · 11.02.2026 · 54 dk
    The surprising story of mammal evolution begins long before the age of dinosaurs. Witness how some of our prehistoric mammal relatives survived global catastrop…
  5. Stone Age Temple Mystery · 25.02.2026 · 54 dk
    Surprising evidence at the world's oldest temple overturns our understanding of human history. The latest excavations at the 12,000 year-old Göbekli Tepe in Tur…
  6. Return to the Moon · 15.04.2026 · 54 dk
    A half-century after Apollo, the Artemis missions aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish a lunar space station. Follow the Artemis II engineers …
  7. Rain Bombs · 22.04.2026 · 54 dk
    An invisible force is causing chaos around the globe. Follow scientists racing to understand the catastrophic "rain bombs" that are sinking ships and downing pl…
  8. Athens: Birth of Democracy · 29.04.2026 · 54 dk
    Follow archaeological investigations into the dramatic origins of democracy in Greece 2,500 years ago. Mass graves and ancient ruins where tyrants were murdered…
  9. The Battle to Breathe · 16.09.2026 · 57 dk
    Once a death sentence, cystic fibrosis now faces an apparent miracle cure. Follow the decades-long scientific quest, fueled by desperate parents, that led to th…
  10. Knowledge Keepers · 23.09.2026 · 57 dk
    For millennia, Indigenous peoples in North America have practiced a unique form of science. From navigating the featureless Arctic to building energy-efficient …
  11. Stone Age Masterpiece · 30.09.2026 · 57 dk
    Hidden in the gorges of Southern France lies one of the most stunning decorated caves ever discovered: Chauvet, 'the Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic art.' For tho…
  12. Space Wars · 07.10.2026 · 57 dk
    Exploring the technology and strategy of a rapidly developing arms race in which global military powers vie to weaponize space.
  13. Evolution: Brain Power · 14.10.2026
    Brains might be the most complex structures on our planet – so how did evolution build them? To find out, rewind the clock three billion years to trace the evol…
  14. Evolution: Need to Feed · 21.10.2026
    The relentless pursuit of energy, the very act of eating, has profoundly shaped life on Earth. Follow the evolution of the bat to discover the untold story behi…
  15. Evolution: Body Builders · 28.10.2026
    Earth teems with life in every imaginable form – creatures that walk, swim, slither, and fly. Some grow to astonishing size, like the elephant, while others boa…
  16. Evolution: The Mating Game · 04.11.2026
    Sex changed everything – evolutionarily speaking, that is. By shuffling the genetic deck it unleashed variation, fueling diversity and throwing evolution into o…
  17. Evolution: On the Run · 11.11.2026
    Run. Leap. Swim. Pounce. Slither. Fly. Life moves in countless ways – but it wasn’t always this way. When animals first emerged, they clung to the seafloor, unt…

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