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NOVA - Season 37

NOVA

Run Time: 55 mins

Air Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009

Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)

PBS

18 Episodes

Darwin's Darkest Hour

Darwin's Darkest Hour

Season 37 - Episode 1

This two-hour scripted drama tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles ...

Hubble's Amazing Rescue

Hubble's Amazing Rescue

Season 37 - Episode 2

The best-known scientific instrument in history was dying. After nearly 20 years in space and hundreds of thousands of spectacular images, t...

Lizard Kings

Lizard Kings

Season 37 - Episode 3

Though they may look like dragons and inspire stories of man-eating, fire-spitting monsters with long claws, razor-sharp teeth and muscular,...

Becoming Human: First Steps

Becoming Human: First Steps

Season 37 - Episode 4

The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Chil...

Becoming Human: Birth of Humanity

Becoming Human: Birth of Humanity

Season 37 - Episode 5

In gripping forensic detail, the second program in “Becoming Human” investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us — “Turkana Boy...

Becoming Human: Last Human Standing

Becoming Human: Last Human Standing

Season 37 - Episode 6

The final program examines the roots of our own species, Homo sapiens, which new evidence pinpoints to southern Africa some 200,000 years ag...

What Are Dreams?

What Are Dreams?

Season 37 - Episode 7

What are dreams and why do we have them? Are they a window into a hidden realm within us? Science is only just beginning to understand. NOVA...

What Darwin Never Knew

What Darwin Never Knew

Season 37 - Episode 8

NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion yea...

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

Season 37 - Episode 9

NOVA dives beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II -- the sinking...

Building Pharaoh's Ship

Building Pharaoh's Ship

Season 37 - Episode 10

A magnificent trading vessel embarks on a royal expedition to a mysterious, treasure-laden land called Punt. Is this journey, intricately de...

Riddles of the Sphinx

Riddles of the Sphinx

Season 37 - Episode 11

A team of archeologists carries out experiments that reveal the techniques and labor invested in the carving of the Sphinx. The team also un...

Ghosts of Machu Picchu

Ghosts of Machu Picchu

Season 37 - Episode 12

NOVA joins a new generation of archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven’t been touched since the time of the Incas.

Extreme Cave Diving

Extreme Cave Diving

Season 37 - Episode 13

"Extreme Cave Diving" follows a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice...

The Pluto Files

The Pluto Files

Season 37 - Episode 14

When the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself ...

Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way

Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way

Season 37 - Episode 15

In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the...

Hunting the Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe

Hunting the Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe

Season 37 - Episode 16

In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the...

Mind Over Money

Mind Over Money

Season 37 - Episode 17

Exposes the mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on the planet: the human mind and money. Using analysis and ex...

Mt. St. Helens Back From the Dead

Mt. St. Helens Back From the Dead

Season 37 - Episode 18

For 27 years, biologist Charlie Crisafulli has been documenting the dramatic return of plant and animal life to Mt. St. Helens after the 198...

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