Season 39

episodes

1. 1. Engineering Ground Zero 2011-09-07 55 min To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. With extraordinary access granted by The Port Authority o...
2. 2. Surviving the Tsunami 2011-09-28 55 min 7.0 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 unprecedented tsunami, obliterating coastal villa...
3. 3. Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone? 2011-10-19 55 min 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 dazzling animation, this program immerse...
4. 4. Iceman Murder Mystery 2011-10-26 55 min 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 from a glacier in the Italian Alps, conti...
5. 5. The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space? 2011-11-02 55 min 8.2 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 empty void. Well, it turns out space is...
6. 6. The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time 2011-11-09 55 min 7.2 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. Even more surprising, the deep sense w...
7. 7. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap 2011-11-16 55 min 8.5 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 life in a nightclub like no other, wher...
8. 8. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse? 2011-11-23 55 min 8.3 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 of worlds that make up the multiverse....
9. 9. Deadliest Volcanoes 2012-01-04 55 min 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 daily at risk from these sleeping giant...
10. 10. Bombing Hitler's Dams 2012-01-11 55 min 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 heartland and cutting the water supply to arms...
11. 11. 3D Spies of WWII 2012-01-18 55 min During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors of advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intelligence recruited a team of brilliant min...
12. 12. Mystery of a Masterpiece 2012-01-25 55 min 7.0 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 portrait is now thought to be an undisco...
13. 13. Ice Age Death Trap 2012-02-01 55 min 9.0 In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. T...
14. 14. Separating Twins 2012-02-08 55 min 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 little chance of survival, until they wer...
15. 15. Cracking Your Genetic Code 2012-03-28 55 min 6.5 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 analysis? In "Cracking Your Genetic Code," NOVA...
16. 16. Hunting the Elements 2012-04-04 55 min 8.2 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 the metals in our smartphones. To unlock...
17. 17. Deadliest Tornadoes 2012-04-11 55 min 7.0 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 outbreak? How do such outbreaks form? With...
18. 18. Why Ships Sink 2012-04-18 55 min 7.0 Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to shopping malls to ice skating rinks. And the ships just keep...
19. 19. Secrets of the Sun 2012-04-25 55 min 8.0 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 staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It con...