NOVA

TV-PG
1974    55mDocumentary
8.7
A weekly documentary series, each episode providing an in-depth look at a different subject of scientific research. Subjects examined by this show have included the cutting edge of theoretical physics, a return to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the long-term effects of Amazon deforestation, and the development of life-saving medical techniques.

52 Seasons

  • Specials
    Specials7 Episodes
  • Season 1
    Season 113 Episodes
  • Season 2
    Season 217 Episodes
  • Season 3
    Season 320 Episodes
  • Season 4
    Season 419 Episodes
  • Season 5
    Season 521 Episodes
  • Season 6
    Season 619 Episodes
  • Season 7
    Season 720 Episodes
  • Season 8
    Season 820 Episodes
  • Season 9
    Season 919 Episodes
  • Season 10
    Season 1021 Episodes
  • Season 11
    Season 1120 Episodes
  • Season 12
    Season 1220 Episodes
  • Season 13
    Season 1321 Episodes
  • Season 14
    Season 1421 Episodes
  • Season 15
    Season 1522 Episodes
  • Season 16
    Season 1620 Episodes
  • Season 17
    Season 1720 Episodes
  • Season 18
    Season 1819 Episodes
  • Season 19
    Season 1920 Episodes
  • Season 20
    Season 2020 Episodes
  • Season 21
    Season 2120 Episodes
  • Season 22
    Season 2213 Episodes
  • Season 23
    Season 2319 Episodes
  • Season 24
    Season 2421 Episodes
  • Season 25
    Season 2520 Episodes
  • Season 26
    Season 2620 Episodes
  • Season 27
    Season 2721 Episodes
  • Season 28
    Season 2817 Episodes
  • Season 29
    Season 2917 Episodes
  • Season 30
    Season 3016 Episodes
  • Season 31
    Season 3118 Episodes
  • Season 32
    Season 3218 Episodes
  • Season 33
    Season 3320 Episodes
  • Season 34
    Season 3415 Episodes
  • Season 35
    Season 3517 Episodes
  • Season 36
    Season 3617 Episodes
  • Season 37
    Season 3718 Episodes
  • Season 38
    Season 3818 Episodes
  • Season 39
    Season 3919 Episodes
  • Season 40
    Season 4020 Episodes
  • Season 41
    Season 4122 Episodes
  • Season 42
    Season 4222 Episodes
  • Season 43
    Season 4322 Episodes
  • Season 44
    Season 4428 Episodes
  • Season 45
    Season 4523 Episodes
  • Season 46
    Season 4623 Episodes
  • Season 47
    Season 4716 Episodes
  • Season 48
    Season 4825 Episodes
  • Season 49
    Season 4919 Episodes
  • Season 50
    Season 5018 Episodes
  • Season 51
    Season 5118 Episodes
  • Season 52
    Season 5211 Episodes

Cast of NOVA

  • Jay O. SandersNarrator (voice)
  • Lance LewmanNarrator (voice)
  • Neil RossNarrator
  • Liev SchreiberNarrator (voice)
  • Craig SechlerNarrator
  • Will LymanNarrator
  • David PogueHost
  • Stacy KeachNarrator
  • David Ogden StiersNarrator
  • Brian GreeneHost
  • John LithgowNarrator
  • Neil deGrasse TysonSelf - Host
  • Gene GalushaNarrator
  • Peter ThomasNarrator
  • Richard DonatNarrator
  • Jeremiah KisselNarrator
  • Corey JohnsonNarrator
  • Richard SmithHost / Director
  • Jamie EffrosNarrator
  • Kathryn WalkerNarrator
  • Paul VaughanNarrator (voice)
  • Demetri GoritsasNarrator
  • Ted MarcouxNarrator
  • Eric MeyersNarrator
  • David AttenboroughNarrator / Writer
  • Tony KahnNarrator
  • Joe MortonNarrator
  • Roy ScheiderNarrator
  • John HockenberryNarrator
  • Kirk JohnsonHost
  • Valerie HarperSelf
  • Stockard ChanningSelf - Bible Reader
  • Christian PedersenOtto Hahn
  • Oliver PlattNarrator
  • Edd GasperNarrator
  • Beatrix GardnerSelf
  • Ian HolmNarrator
  • Don WescottNarrator (voice)
  • Martin JarvisG.H. Hardy (voice)
  • Courtney B. VanceNarrator
  • Bray PoorNarrator
  • Michael ScottNarrator / Writer
  • Jim CarterNarrator
  • Kenichi NakamaruReporter
  • Shu MorinoReporter
  • John MckenzieNarrator
  • Henry Ian CusickCharles Darwin
  • Frances O'ConnorEmma Darwin
  • Nigel BennettSir Charles Lyell
  • Rushmore DeNooyerNarrator / Director / Writer / Producer
  • Mark Oliver EverettHimself
  • Stefanie E. FrameNarrator
  • John Benjamin HickeyNarrator
  • Alan YentobNarrator
  • Rob TinworthNarrator
  • David SlavinNarrator
  • Ray MagliozziHost
  • Tom MagliozziHost
  • Harrison FordNarrator
  • E.O. WilsonHimself
  • Ruben Santiago-HudsonPercy Julian
  • Aidan McArdleAlbert Einstein
  • Shirley HendersonMileva Maric
  • Steven RobertsonMichael Faraday
  • Julian Rhind-TuttAntoine Lavoisier
  • Ty GlaserMarie Anne Lavoisier
  • Brendan FlemingHermann Einstein
  • Stephen NoonanMarat
  • Anton LesserVoltaire
  • Emily WoofLise Meitner
  • Alex MacqueenChater
  • Samuel WestHumphry Davy
  • Robert StylesNewman
  • Philip HerbertCount de Amerval
  • Di TrevisBaroness de la Garde
  • James TovellManson
  • F. Murray AbrahamNarrator
  • Scott HandyIsaac Newton
  • Anthony Garner Sir John Franklin
  • Maureen BennettLady Franklin
  • Thom FellJames Fitzjames
  • Bohdan PorajFrancis Crozier
  • Corey ConradiRoald Amundsen
  • Darri IngolfssonGodfred Hansen
  • Marian Tomas GriffinMary Mallon
  • Jere SheaGeorge Soper
  • Keith DavidNarrator
  • Calvin SimsReporter
  • C. Scott WillisReporter / Director
  • Simon CallowGalileo
  • Laura NardiMaria Celeste
  • John FraserInquisitor
  • Alexa JagoVoice of Maria Celeste
  • Cornelius GarrettVoices of the Ambassador and Castelli
  • Sigourney WeaverNarrator
  • Rena BaskinNarrator
  • Vladimir PoznerHost
  • Roger McGoughNarrator
  • William HootkinsVoice of Methuselah
  • Derek JacobiVoice of Ernest Shackleton
  • Susan SarandonNarrator (voice)
  • Héctor ElizondoNarrator
  • Robert KrulwichCorrespondent
  • Hal LindenNarrator
  • John HurtNarrator
  • Rebecca De MornayNarrator
  • Sally KellermanNarrator
  • Jeremy AkermanParslow
  • Jan MaxwellNarrator
  • Salvatore VecchioNarrator
  • Richard AllinsonNarrator
  • Lee Rogers BergerHimself
  • Zeresenay AlemsegedHimself
  • Kostas Baras
  • Alkibiadis Bakogianis
  • Argirios Bangelis
  • Andreas Charitopoulos
  • Aristotelles Kariofillas
  • Kiriakos Kamaros
  • Elias Papadopoulos
  • Demetris Xilas
  • John HawksHimself
  • Zachary QuintoNarrator
  • Laurence GolborneSelf
  • Talithia WilliamsSelf - Narrator
  • John PallisterSelf - USGS Geologist
  • Charlie CrisafulliSelf - USGS Geologist
  • Robert MichelsonSelf
  • Reinhard GenzelSelf
  • Manfred von RichthofenSelf (archive footage)
  • William H. WhyteSelf
  • James R. SchlesingerSelf (archive footage)
  • Heather BerlinSelf
  • George PatakiSelf
  • Carl Sagan
  • Dr. John E. MackSelf - Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Bernard ArcandSelf
  • Duncan CarseNarrator
  • Carl SaganSelf
  • R. Allen GardnerSelf
  • Sue Savage-RumbaughSelf
  • Patricia Marks GreenfieldSelf
  • Duane RumbaughSelf
  • Sarah BoysonSelf
  • Robert SinsheimerSelf
  • David BaltimoreSelf
  • George ChurchSelf
  • Jennifer DoudnaSelf
  • Rodolphe BarrangouSelf
  • Antonio RegaladoSelf
  • Christopher MolesworthJoey as a Boy
  • John PrasherJoey as a Young Man
  • Joseph DeaconJoey Today
  • Tony RobinsonYounger Ernie
  • Ernie RobertsErnie Today
  • Anita CareyJoey's Mother
  • Mark Wing-DaveyJoey's Father
  • Shankara MurthiS. Ramanujan (voice)
  • A. TarcisiusIndian Voices (voice)
  • Gregory HarrisJ.E. Littlewood (voice)
  • Jean DieudonneSelf
  • Paul ErdösSelf
  • Greg MooreSelf
  • Maureen StapletonNarrator (voice)
  • David RoseSelf
  • Richard PostSelf
  • William FranklynNarrator (voice)
  • Terrence HardimanTrofim Lysenko
  • David SwiftNikolai Vavilov
  • Simon LackZhukovsky
  • Richard IresonPrezent
  • George CormackIvan Michurin
  • Forbes CollinsIakovlev
  • Richard BealeLysenko's Father
  • Noel DavisScientist
  • Michael DavidAgrobiologist
  • David JamesGorshkov
  • Brian PoyserShudenko
  • Eve KarpfWoman
  • Frank GillardNarrator (voice)
  • Jeremy KeenanAnthropologist
  • Linus PaulingSelf
  • Ray MooreNarrator (voice)
  • Joseph CampanellaNarrator (voice)
  • Alexander JohnNarrator (voice)
  • Robin KingNarrator (voice)
  • David SuzukiNarrator (voice)
  • Harry MannisNarrator (voice)
  • Will LymanNarrator (voice)
  • Bill MasonNarrator (voice)
  • Lee GrantNarrator (voice)
  • Richard KileyNarrator (voice)
  • Ursula DrabikNarrator (voice)
  • Lanie ZeraNarrator (voice)
  • Stephen Jay GouldSelf
  • Mimi Michaela KonozaHigh School Student (uncredited)
  • Natalie RoseJosephine Baker
  • Robert D. BallardSelf
  • Homer H. Hickam Jr.Self
  • Martin K.A. MorganSelf
  • Sarah HoltDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Kirk WolfingerDirector
  • Michael BarnesDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Liesl ClarkDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Doug HamiltonDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Gary GlassmanDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Larry KleinDirector / Writer
  • Graham TownsleyDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Julia CortDirector / Writer
  • Joseph McMasterDirector / Writer
  • Ian DuncanDirector / Writer
  • Duncan CoppDirector
  • Mark DavisDirector / Writer
  • Chris SchmidtDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Gail WillumsenDirector / Writer
  • David DuganDirector / Writer
  • Mikael AgatonDirector / Writer
  • Oliver TwinchDirector / Writer
  • Michael BicksDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Stephen SweigartDirector / Writer
  • Daniel McCabeDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Peter JonesDirector
  • David MurdockDirector / Writer
  • Terri RandallDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Miles O'BrienDirector
  • Joseph SeamansDirector / Writer
  • Thomas LucasDirector / Writer
  • Robert ZaliskDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Gary JohnstoneDirector / Writer
  • Gisela KaufmannDirector / Writer
  • Malcolm ClarkDirector / Writer
  • Carl CharlsonDirector / Writer
  • David SingtonDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Jon PalfremanDirector / Writer
  • Nathan WilliamsDirector / Writer
  • Peter ChinnDirector / Writer
  • John Hayes FisherDirector / Producer
  • Marco VisalberghiDirector
  • John RubinDirector / Writer
  • Nancy LindeDirector / Writer
  • Matthew BarrettDirector
  • Alice HarperDirector
  • Nick Clarke PowellDirector
  • Louise LockwoodDirector
  • Peter YostDirector / Writer
  • Ben FoxDirector
  • Jeremy Llewellyn-JonesDirector / Writer
  • Nick DavidsonDirector / Writer
  • David AxelrodDirector / Writer
  • Scott TiffanyDirector
  • Leslie WoodheadDirector / Writer
  • Gwyn WilliamsDirector / Producer
  • Jonathan ChallisDirector
  • Paul OldingDirector / Writer
  • Susannah WardDirector
  • Annámaria TálasDirector
  • Gilles CayatteDirector
  • Rob WhittleseyDirector
  • Dan ChildDirector
  • Harvey LilleyDirector
  • Leif KaldorDirector / Writer
  • Ben FinneyDirector
  • David ConoverDirector
  • Steven LathamDirector
  • Stéphane BégoinDirector
  • Randall MacLowryDirector
  • Noel DockstaderDirector
  • Marian MarzynskiDirector
  • David LebrunDirector / Writer
  • Kelly TylerDirector / Writer
  • Jon EastmanDirector / Producer
  • James BarratDirector
  • Alex WilliamsDirector
  • David EsparDirector / Writer
  • Adam EnglishDirector
  • Carolyn BertramDirector
  • John BradshawDirector
  • Nick de PencierDirector
  • Ingo HelbigDirector
  • Robert StrangeDirector
  • Hugh ThomsonDirector / Writer
  • Eleanor GrantDirector
  • Liz TuckerDirector
  • Mary Olive SmithDirector
  • Amy BucherDirector
  • Chris OxleyDirector
  • Andreas SawallDirector
  • Shinichi MurataDirector
  • Lisa Q. WolfingerDirector
  • Kate BartlettDirector / Producer
  • Graham RussellDirector
  • Josh RosenDirector
  • Marti LouwDirector
  • James BrundigeDirector
  • Andrew ThompsonDirector
  • Andrew CohenDirector
  • Chris HaleDirector
  • Larkin McPheeDirector / Writer
  • Amir AmiraniDirector
  • Ricardo PreveDirector
  • Dimitri DoganisDirector
  • Jacinth O'DonnellDirector
  • Louise OsmondDirector
  • Wolfgang ThalerDirector
  • David McNabDirector
  • Ellen GiffardDirector
  • Jerome RaynaudDirector / Writer
  • Tetsuji MiyagawaDirector
  • Kenny ScottDirector / Writer
  • Antoine de MaximyDirector
  • Owen PalmquistDirector
  • Emily RoeDirector
  • Sean VarleyDirector
  • Chris DurlacherDirector / Writer
  • Oscar ChanDirector / Writer
  • Brian BregerDirector
  • Caroline Penry-DaveyDirector / Writer
  • Peter OxleyDirector
  • Llewellyn M. SmithDirector / Writer
  • Michael SchwarzDirector
  • Rick KingDirector
  • Miles BartonDirector
  • Nic YoungDirector / Writer
  • Elizabeth ArledgeDirector / Writer
  • Tom CookDirector
  • Tetsunori KikuchiDirector
  • Edward HartDirector
  • Jamie LochheadDirector / Writer / Producer
  • John AitchisonDirector
  • Adrian PenninkDirector / Writer
  • Scott WillisDirector
  • Christopher 'Toby' McLeodDirector / Writer
  • Andy AwesDirector
  • Lara AcasterDirector
  • Martin O'CollinsDirector
  • Celia LowensteinDirector
  • Brando QuiliciDirector
  • Joby LubmanDirector / Producer
  • Dick BowerDirector
  • Tom StubberfieldDirector
  • Christopher RawlenceDirector / Writer
  • Stephen LyonsDirector / Writer
  • Nancy PorterDirector / Writer
  • Mike BeckhamDirector / Writer
  • Jason SussbergDirector
  • David AlvaradoDirector
  • Jill ShinefieldDirector
  • Michael JorgensenDirector
  • Graham JuddDirector
  • Jonathan GrupperDirector / Writer
  • David HuntleyDirector
  • Iain RiddickDirector / Writer
  • Jonathan DentDirector
  • Peter NicholsonDirector
  • Joel OlickerDirector / Writer
  • Peter WilliamsDirector
  • Muffie MeyerDirector
  • Tim DunnDirector / Writer
  • Jo LockeDirector
  • Adam GeigerDirector / Writer
  • Clay BryceDirector
  • Anna Lee StrachanDirector / Producer
  • Herbert HabersackDirector
  • Jemima HarrisonDirector
  • Bonnie BrennanDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Noel BucknerDirector
  • Steve GreenwoodDirector
  • Paul ReddishDirector
  • Adam BoltDirector
  • Daniel McCabeDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Henry ChancellorDirector
  • Talya TibbonDirector
  • Thierry RagobertDirector
  • Nick EvansDirector
  • Serena DaviesDirector
  • Gary HochmanDirector / Writer
  • Thomas LevensonDirector
  • Alan GovenarDirector / Writer
  • Garfield KennedyDirector
  • Katie BauerDirector
  • Simon NashiDirector
  • David Shadrack SmithDirector
  • Mark RadiceDirector
  • Simon NashtDirector
  • Bill JerseyDirector
  • Tug YourgrauDirector
  • Callum MacraeDirector
  • Peter BateDirector
  • Kate DartDirector
  • Sabin StreeterDirector
  • David ChmuraDirector
  • Nigel PatersonDirector
  • Bella FalkDirector
  • Richard Burke-WardDirector
  • Gianfranco PannoneDirector
  • Chantal HébertDirector
  • David BeltonDirector
  • Alan RitskoDirector
  • Ben ShacklefordDirector
  • Stuart ScowcroftDirector
  • Charles CovilleDirector
  • Jackie MowDirector
  • James BamfordWriter
  • Matthew CollinsWriter
  • Michael WinshipWriter
  • Tom ShachtmanWriter
  • Adam BoltWriter
  • Satoko SaitoWriter
  • Steven ReichWriter
  • Andrew DeanWriter
  • Jonathan RenoufWriter
  • Marrily WeisbordWriter
  • Martin WilliamsWriter
  • John GoldsmithWriter
  • Vincent LiotaWriter
  • Kate HudecWriter
  • Ronald H. BlumerWriter
  • Leslea MairWriter
  • Wayne DyerWriter
  • Linda HarrarWriter
  • Jeremy HogarthWriter
  • Jonathan WickhamWriter
  • Timothy SmithWriter
  • Thomas FriedmanWriter
  • Arnie GelbartWriter
  • William HicklinWriter
  • Evan I. SchwartzWriter
  • Judith VecchioneWriter
  • Paula S. ApsellProducer
  • Catherine WatlingProducer
  • Sarah KinsellaProducer
  • Chad CohenProducer
  • James MillicanProducer
  • Laurie CahalaneProducer

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