NOVA - Season 44
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 7 Sept 2016
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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15 Years of Terror
Season 44 - Episode 1
From 9/11 to today’s crowd-sourced violence, trace how terrorists’ strategies have evolved.
School of the Future
Season 44 - Episode 2
How the science of learning may change education for all children.
Great Human Odyssey
Season 44 - Episode 3
Follow our ancient ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa and into every corner of our planet.
Super Tunnel
Season 44 - Episode 4
Join engineers as they build a massive new railway deep beneath the streets of London.
Treasures of the Earth: Gems
Season 44 - Episode 5
Gemstones like diamonds, rubies, opal and jade are the ultimate treasures. Delve into Earth's depths to discover how these precious stones a...
Treasures of the Earth: Metals
Season 44 - Episode 6
Gold, bronze, iron, steel... metals are pillars of our civilization, but what makes them so special? Discover their unique properties and ex...
Treasures of the Earth: Power
Season 44 - Episode 7
Drill down to discover how Earth's natural treasures provide bountiful energy to power our modern world yet are also driving us to seek new,...
Secrets of the Sky Tombs
Season 44 - Episode 8
The towering Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that humanity settled. Scaling sheer cliff sides, a team of daring scientists hun...
The Nuclear Option
Season 44 - Episode 9
Five years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the unprecedented trio of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,...
Search for the Super Battery
Season 44 - Episode 10
Explore the hidden world of energy storage and how it holds the keys to a greener future.
Ultimate Cruise Ship
Season 44 - Episode 11
Join pioneering shipbuilders as they embark on a feat of maritime engineering.
The Origami Revolution
Season 44 - Episode 12
The centuries-old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is inspiring a scientific revolution. The rules o...
Why Trains Crash
Season 44 - Episode 13
From derailments to head-on collisions to drivers killed at road crossings, deadly train accidents claim dozens of lives each year. But just...
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
Season 44 - Episode 14
The Lithuanian city of Vilna, known also as the “Jerusalem of the North”, was one of the most important Jewish centers in the world until Wo...
Building Chernobyl's Megatomb
Season 44 - Episode 15
Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor.
Chinese Chariot Revealed
Season 44 - Episode 16
For over 1000 years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields - dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on earth. Now, archaeolog...
Poisoned Water
Season 44 - Episode 17
NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, but overlooked a crit...
Eclipse Over America
Season 44 - Episode 18
On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. Whi...
Ghosts of Stonehenge
Season 44 - Episode 19
Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe’s prehistoric monuments, and has inspired countless theories to explain who built it...
Death Dive to Saturn
Season 44 - Episode 20
Aiming to skim less than 2000 miles above the cloud tops, no spacecraft has ever gone so close to Saturn, and hopes are high for incredible ...
Secrets of the Shining Knight
Season 44 - Episode 21
Once upon a time, knighthood was serious business, and for countless medieval fighters, their armor was what stood between life and death. N...
Secrets of the Forbidden City
Season 44 - Episode 22
The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imp...
Killer Volcanoes
Season 44 - Episode 23
NOVA follows a team of volcano sleuths as they embark on a worldwide hunt for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth ...
Killer Hurricanes
Season 44 - Episode 24
Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they weren’t the first. The Great Hurricane of 1780 took ...
Killer Floods
Season 44 - Episode 25
All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recen...
Extreme Animal Weapons
Season 44 - Episode 26
From lobster claws and dog teeth to bee stings and snake fangs, every creature depends on a weapon. But some are armed to extremes that make...
Bird Brain
Season 44 - Episode 27
Watch astonishing tests of avian aptitude: parrots that can plan for the future, jackdaws that can “read” human faces, and crows that can so...
Day the Dinosaurs Died
Season 44 - Episode 28
66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, triggering a chain of events that coincide with the end of the dinosau...