NOVA - Season 33
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 20 Sept 2005
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS20 Episodes
Mystery of the Megaflood
Season 33 - Episode 1
It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that ...
Sinking the Supership
Season 33 - Episode 2
The search for the wreck of the Yamato, the largest and mightiest battleship ever floated and the pride of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Cons...
Einstein's Big Idea
Season 33 - Episode 3
Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary Special Theory of Relativity and came to a startl...
Volcano Under the City
Season 33 - Episode 4
A restless mountain threatens a bustling metropolis perched on its flanks.
Hitler's Sunken Secret
Season 33 - Episode 5
One of the most daring clandestine operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro with its cargo of "heavy wat...
Newton's Dark Secrets
Season 33 - Episode 6
He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitatio...
Storm That Drowned a City
Season 33 - Episode 7
In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and trans...
The Mummy Who Would Be King
Season 33 - Episode 8
Could a mummy found in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Pharaoh?
Deadly Ascent
Season 33 - Episode 9
Doctors, rescuers and mountaineers try to determine why people die attempting to climb Mount McKinley.
The Perfect Corpse
Season 33 - Episode 10
Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well preserved bodies of people buried long ago under peat bogs.
Jewel of the Earth
Season 33 - Episode 11
David Attenborough probes the mystery of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.
The Ghost Particle
Season 33 - Episode 12
A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself.
Arctic Passage
Season 33 - Episode 13
NOVA recreates the expeditions of Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, two Arctic explorers who set out to find the legendary Arctic sea ro...
The Great Robot Race: Nova
Season 33 - Episode 14
Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Majove Desert.
Voyage to the Mystery Moon
Season 33 - Episode 15
A mission to Saturn and its enigmatic sattelite, Titan, looks for clues to the origins of life.
Dimming the Sun
Season 33 - Episode 16
Everyone has heard of global warming, but a lesser-known man-made phenomenon has been nearly as powerful at affecting Earth's climate. A loo...
Wings of Madness
Season 33 - Episode 17
Nova reviews the contribution of Alberto Santos Dumont in the early days of aircraft development and his uncanny ability to abandon one line...
Family That Walks on All Fours
Season 33 - Episode 18
This episode focuses on a scientific debate about five siblings in a Turkish family who walk on all fours. When, in 2005, scientist Uner Tan...
ScienceNOW: Extinction
Season 33 - Episode 19
The "Nova scienceNOW" magazine delves into a case of mass extinction some 250 million years ago; investigates the 1918 influenza outbreak, w...
Underwater Dream Machine
Season 33 - Episode 20
The story of Peter Robbins, an engineer who---at a cost of $1.5 million---built his own submarine (named Alicia) in order to explore sunken ...