NOVA - Season 37
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...