NOVA - Season 5
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1978
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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In The Event of Catastrophe
Season 5 - Episode 1
Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
The Green Machine
Season 5 - Episode 2
Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth ...
Blueprints in the Bloodstream
Season 5 - Episode 3
It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristi...
One Small Step
Season 5 - Episode 4
Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through th...
The Final Frontier
Season 5 - Episode 5
Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, inclu...
BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest
Season 5 - Episode 6
In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficul...
Trial of Denton Cooley
Season 5 - Episode 7
In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his...
The Great Wine Revolution
Season 5 - Episode 8
A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with th...
The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
Season 5 - Episode 9
NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claim...
The Mind Machines
Season 5 - Episode 10
Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only...
Icarus' Children
Season 5 - Episode 11
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design an...
Still Waters
Season 5 - Episode 12
NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, fr...
Battle for the Acropolis
Season 5 - Episode 13
The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble s...
The Road to Happiness. : The Life and Times of Henry Ford
Season 5 - Episode 14
Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposi...
Laser : Light of the 21st Century
Season 5 - Episode 15
When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fac...
Insect Alternative
Season 5 - Episode 16
In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pest...
The Desert's Edge
Season 5 - Episode 17
For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands ...
The Tsetse Trap
Season 5 - Episode 18
NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
Memories From Eden
Season 5 - Episode 19
Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than abo...
A Whisper from Space
Season 5 - Episode 20
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave...
Alaska: The Closing Frontier
Season 5 - Episode 21
Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of...