NOVA - Season 43
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 16 Sept 2015
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS22 Episodes
Dawn of Humanity
Season 43 - Episode 1
Deep in a South African cave, an astounding discovery reveals clues to what made us human.
Arctic Ghost Ship
Season 43 - Episode 2
NOVA presents an exclusive breakthrough in the greatest unsolved mystery in Arctic exploration. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin ...
Secrets of Noah's Ark
Season 43 - Episode 3
A team of historians and expert boat builders investigates the fascinating Noah's Ark flood legend and sets out to rebuild a tantalizing, an...
Cyberwar Threat
Season 43 - Episode 4
NOVA examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race.
Animal Mummies
Season 43 - Episode 5
NOVA joins a team of leading Egyptologists who deploy the latest medical imaging to peer beneath the wrappings of Egyptian mummified beasts ...
Making North America: Origins
Season 43 - Episode 6
The epic 3 billion-year story of how our continent came to be. From the palm trees that once flourished in Alaska to titanic eruptions that ...
Making North America: Life
Season 43 - Episode 7
How did life emerge on our primeval continent? Why was North America home to so many iconic dinosaurs like T. rex? And how did a huge sea fi...
Making North America: Human
Season 43 - Episode 8
The history of North America since the arrival of humans is chronicled. Natural resources, including gold and oil, have enabled humans to tr...
Inside Einstein's Mind
Season 43 - Episode 9
On November 25th, 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: general relativity. The theory transformed our understanding of nature’s laws ...
Secret Tunnel Warfare
Season 43 - Episode 10
During World War I, the Allies and Germans repeatedly struggled to break the hideous stalemate of trench warfare. In the winter of 1916, All...
Life's Rocky Start
Season 43 - Episode 11
Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gas...
Mystery Beneath the Ice
Season 43 - Episode 12
Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem. But the population of krill is crashing for reasons that co...
Himalayan Megaquake
Season 43 - Episode 13
On April 25, 2015, a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal. As it ripped across the Himalayas, it wiped out villages and left thousands dead. ...
Creatures of Light
Season 43 - Episode 14
On a summer’s night, there’s nothing more magic than watching the soft glow of fireflies switching on and off. Few other life forms on land ...
Memory Hackers
Season 43 - Episode 15
Memory is the glue that binds our mental lives. Without it, we’d be prisoners of the present, unable to use the lessons of the past to chang...
Iceman Reborn
Season 43 - Episode 16
He was stalked, attacked and left to die alone. Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest known natural mummy. ...
Rise of the Robots
Season 43 - Episode 17
Machines are everywhere. They run our factory assembly lines and make our coffee. But humanoid robots—machines with human-like capabilities—...
Vikings Unearthed
Season 43 - Episode 18
Uncover the truth behind the legendary Vikings and their epic journey to the Americas.
Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped?
Season 43 - Episode 19
Alzheimer's ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. Join scientists as they untangle the cause of this tragic illness and go...
Wild Ways
Season 43 - Episode 20
Explore how newly established wildlife corridors offer hope to endangered species.
Operation Lighthouse Rescue
Season 43 - Episode 21
Engineers race to rescue the Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard from the ocean's erosion.
Bombing Hitler's Supergun
Season 43 - Episode 22
Engineers and World War II historians investigate Hitler's fearsome bank of "superguns."