NOVA - Season 10
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1983
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Hawaii: Crucible of Life
Season 10 - Episode 1
This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an extraordinary world far from the teemin...
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Season 10 - Episode 2
NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous perso...
Lassa Fever
Season 10 - Episode 3
A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle...
The Miracle of Life
Season 10 - Episode 4
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 photogr...
Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy
Season 10 - Episode 5
Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposure. NOVA turns its spotlight on the tragi...
City of Coral
Season 10 - Episode 6
NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a coral reef, where the line between p...
Fat Chance in a Thin World
Season 10 - Episode 7
"Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up with some surprising answers about weight a...
Sixty Minutes to Meltdown
Season 10 - Episode 8
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-m...
Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales
Season 10 - Episode 9
The dream of talking with animals has been with us for centuries. NOVA explores the latest research, from language experiments with dolphins...
The Artificial Heart
Season 10 - Episode 10
Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first artificial heart implant in 1982. He died in March 1983, having survived 112 days with the w...
Talking Turtle
Season 10 - Episode 11
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 ...
Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
Season 10 - Episode 12
Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropology. But in recent years, some of these pe...
To Live Until You Die: The Work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Season 10 - Episode 13
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 ex...
A Magic Way of Going: The Story of Thoroughbreds
Season 10 - Episode 14
Can the thoroughbred horse run any faster? NOVA examines the billion-dollar horse racing industry in its search for the magic combination of...
A Normal Face: The Wonders of Plastic Surgery
Season 10 - Episode 15
When plastic surgeons repair the shattered face of a soldier or rescue a child from a disfiguring disease, the victory is more than skin-dee...
Captives of Care
Season 10 - Episode 16
Patients at an Australian institution for the severely handicapped rebel against a pair of over-zealous custodians. This astonishing true st...
Twenty-Five Years in Space
Season 10 - Episode 17
As the American space program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, NOVA chronicles the effects of the space age on Earth, drawing on p...
Nuclear Strategy for Beginners
Season 10 - Episode 18
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...
The Climate Crisis
Season 10 - Episode 19
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 a...
Eyes Over China
Season 10 - Episode 20
NOVA documents a dramatic encounter in international medicine when an American plane lands in China—equipped with a state-of-the-art eye-ope...
Alcoholism: Life Under The Influence
Season 10 - Episode 21
In a culture laced with alcohol, the search for a scientific understanding of alcoholism is as complex as the disease. In an interdisciplina...