NOVA - Season 32
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 28 Sept 2004
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS18 Episodes
Origins: Earth is Born
Season 32 - Episode 1
"Origins: Earth is Born" gives viewers a spectacular glimpse of the tumultuous first billion years of Planet Earth—a time of continuous cata...
Origins: How Life Began
Season 32 - Episode 2
"Origins: How Life Began," zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how it happened. Join the hunt for hardy microbes that flourish in the most u...
Origins: Where Are the Aliens?
Season 32 - Episode 3
In "Origins: Where are the Aliens?," host astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores such provocative questions as: would "ETs" resemble us...
Origins: Back to the Beginning
Season 32 - Episode 4
"Origins: Back to the Beginning" explores how the colossal, mind-boggling forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds...
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Season 32 - Episode 5
Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook that was quaratined for life against her will in the early 1900s.
America's Stone Age Explorers
Season 32 - Episode 6
Who were the first Ameicans and where did they come from?
Great Escape
Season 32 - Episode 7
Archeologists excavate Stalag Luft 3, the site of the greatest WWII prisoner escape. Prisoners of the camp are also interviewed.
Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
Season 32 - Episode 8
Follow an expedition to a remote cave in the Judean desert, first excavated by the famed Israeli archeologist Yigael Yadin in 1960-61. Yadin...
Welcome to Mars
Season 32 - Episode 9
NOVA follows a team of scientists as the monitor the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit runs into some problems, but Opportunity ...
The Boldest Hoax
Season 32 - Episode 10
For decades, a fossil skull discovered in Piltdown, England, was hailed as the missing link between apes and humans. Entire careers were bui...
Supersonic Dream
Season 32 - Episode 11
A chronicle of the turbulent birth, life and death of the Concorde, the world's first and only supersonic airliner.
The Viking Deception
Season 32 - Episode 12
Ever since its sensational unveiling by Yale University scholars in October 1965, the Vinland Map has been a lightning rod for passionate de...
Saving the National Treasures
Season 32 - Episode 13
A team of experts takes on the preservation of the origianl Constitution, Declaration of Indipendance and Bill of Rights.
A Daring Flight
Season 32 - Episode 14
In 1909, Louis Bleriot undertakes a heroic first-ever flight over the English Channel.
Wave That Shook the World
Season 32 - Episode 15
On December 26, 2004 a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills more than 250,000 people. NOVA takes an in depth look at just what happ...
Hitler's Sunken Secret
Season 32 - Episode 16
Explores the Nazi quest for atomic weapons as it follows a mission to recover barrels of heavy water bound for Berlin from a Norwegian hydro...
Newton's Dark Secrets
Season 32 - Episode 17
The auction of some of Newton's papers early in the 20th century uncovers the fact that he had a side other than the genius mathematician an...
Storm That Drowned a City
Season 32 - Episode 18
An exploration of the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina details failures of levees and disaster-relief planning; why t...