NOVA

Season 29

TV-PG
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.

Where to Watch Season 29

17 Episodes

  • Search for a Safe Cigarette
    E1
    Search for a Safe CigaretteThe program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.
  • 18 Ways to Make a Baby
    E2
    18 Ways to Make a BabyThe program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
  • Secrets of the Mind
    E3
    Secrets of the MindThis NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain works.
  • Sex: Unknown
    E4
    Sex: UnknownThe film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.
  • Russia's Nuclear Warriors
    E5
    Russia's Nuclear WarriorsNOVA 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 Armageddon. Hosted by Vladimir Pozner, Russia's top television journalist, this startling film shows that despite low pay and the tedious existence that these soldiers and their families live with, these men are motivated by a strong sense of patriotic duty and responsibility for the ultimate powers of destruction at their fingertips, in a job that requires complete perfection.
  • Bioterror
    E6
    BioterrorThe 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 other attacks.
  • Life's Greatest Miracle
    E7
    Life's Greatest MiracleA sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson to track human development from embryo to newborn.
  • Methuselah Tree
    E8
    Methuselah TreeMarked 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 Mountains.
  • Flying Casanovas
    E9
    Flying CasanovasThe program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.
  • Death Star
    E10
    Death StarAstronomers struggle for decades to determine where gamma ray bursts are coming from unsure whether they are nearby or half way across the universe. Once that is pinned down an even bigger question arises, what could possibly produce them.
  • Neanderthals on Trial
    E11
    Neanderthals on TrialThe film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
  • Fireworks
    E12
    FireworksThis explosive NOVA presents the colorful history of pyrotechnics and reveals how hi-tech firing systems are transforming public displays into a dazzling, split-second science.
  • Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
    E13
    Secrets, Lies, and Atomic SpiesThe 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.
  • The Missing Link
    E14
    The Missing LinkA paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans.
  • Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
    E15
    Shackleton's Voyage of EnduranceIn late 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth for Antarctica with 27 men, determined to be the first man to cross the continent from coast to coast. His ship, the Endurance, became trapped in pack ice just short of the continent. When the ice crushed their ship to splinters, they were left stranded on the ice floes. Shackleton resolved to rescue each and every man, and turned disaster into one of the greatest survival stories of all time.
  • Why the Towers Fell
    E16
    Why the Towers FellCan lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
  • Fire Wars
    E17
    Fire WarsIn 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 wildfire seasons ever, the summer of 2000.

 

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