NOVA - Season 19
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Hell Fighters of Kuwait
Season 19 - Episode 1
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 his...
Submarine!
Season 19 - Episode 2
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 t...
Saddam's War on Wildlife
Season 19 - Episode 3
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...
What Smells?
Season 19 - Episode 4
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...
Can You Believe TV Ratings?
Season 19 - Episode 5
Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratings are getting more accurate but still a...
Making a Dishonest Buck
Season 19 - Episode 6
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...
Rescuing Baby Whales
Season 19 - Episode 7
NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling behavior becomes more common.
An Astronaut's View of the Earth
Season 19 - Episode 8
NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the cameras on location ab...
Eclipse of the Century
Season 19 - Episode 9
The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minutes of frenetic resear...
Animal Olympians II
Season 19 - Episode 10
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egypt...
The Genius Behind the Bomb
Season 19 - Episode 11
Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibili...
Mind of a Serial Killer
Season 19 - Episode 12
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 Lam...
Search for the First Americans
Season 19 - Episode 13
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 w...
Rafting Through the Grand Canyon
Season 19 - Episode 14
NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first canyon voyage of th...
This Old Pyramid
Season 19 - Episode 15
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egypt...
Iceman
Season 19 - Episode 16
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 ...
Private Lives of Dolphins
Season 19 - Episode 17
NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzees, d...
Brain Transplant
Season 19 - Episode 18
Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unavailable in the US due...
Can You Stop People From Drinking?
Season 19 - Episode 19
NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new weapons—including pro...
Sex and the Single Rhino
Season 19 - Episode 20
NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conservationists need all ...