NOVA - Season 20
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS20 Episodes
The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons
Season 20 - Episode 1
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egypt...
Can Bombing Win a War?
Season 20 - Episode 2
The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history o...
The Deadly Deception
Season 20 - Episode 3
For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA...
Nazis and the Russian Bomb
Season 20 - Episode 4
NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of t...
In the Path of a Killer Volcano
Season 20 - Episode 5
NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mt. P...
Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?
Season 20 - Episode 6
Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA...
Diving for Pirate Gold
Season 20 - Episode 7
These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plunder...
Murder, Rape and DNA
Season 20 - Episode 8
Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is p...
The Lost Tribe
Season 20 - Episode 9
NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippine...
The NOVA Quiz
Season 20 - Episode 10
NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famou...
Wanted: Butch and Sundance
Season 20 - Episode 11
Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They fin...
Secrets of the Psychics
Season 20 - Episode 12
Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, a...
Dying to Breathe
Season 20 - Episode 13
NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants—a new lung. M...
Shadow of the Condor
Season 20 - Episode 14
NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America....
The Real Jurassic Park
Season 20 - Episode 15
With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts , NOVA investigates what it would take to...
Roller Coaster!
Season 20 - Episode 16
NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides of...
Mysterious Crash of Flight 201
Season 20 - Episode 17
US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama. Nothing about the accident makes sen...
Great Moments from NOVA
Season 20 - Episode 18
Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, adventu...
The Best Mind Since Einstein
Season 20 - Episode 19
A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who he...
Stranger in the Mirror
Season 20 - Episode 20
NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and fami...