Search for a Safe Cigarette

Season 29 - Episode 1

The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.

18 Ways to Make a Baby

Season 29 - Episode 2

The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.

Secrets of the Mind

Season 29 - Episode 3

This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain works.

Sex: Unknown

Season 29 - Episode 4

The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.

Russia's Nuclear Warriors

Season 29 - Episode 5

NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from the top Russian polit...

Bioterror

Season 29 - Episode 6

The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple with the current threat...

Life's Greatest Miracle

Season 29 - Episode 7

A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish phot...

Methuselah Tree

Season 29 - Episode 8

Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine o...

Flying Casanovas

Season 29 - Episode 9

The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.

Death Star

Season 29 - Episode 10

The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.

Neanderthals on Trial

Season 29 - Episode 11

The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.

Fireworks

Season 29 - Episode 12

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

Season 29 - Episode 13

The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, The...

The Missing Link

Season 29 - Episode 14

A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-li...

Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance

Season 29 - Episode 15

In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islan...

Why the Towers Fell

Season 29 - Episode 16

Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?

Fire Wars

Season 29 - Episode 17

In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the...