NOVA

s20e01 Animal Olympians II 1992-08-26 01:00 ⌄

No still

Animal Olympians II

s20e01 · 1992-08-26 · 01:00

NOVA looks at grace, speed, strength and endurance of humans and animals.

Rate

s20e02 The Genius Behind the Bomb 1992-09-30 01:00 ⌄

No still

The Genius Behind the Bomb

s20e02 · 1992-09-30 · 01:00

Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and Einstein signed the famous warning, which led to the building of the first atomic bomb.

Rate

s20e03 Mind of a Serial Killer 1992-10-14 01:00 ⌄

No still

Mind of a Serial Killer

s20e03 · 1992-10-14 · 01:00

NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs. Using a detailed psychological profile, the unit helped the Rochester, New York police department catch a notorious serial killer who targeted prostitutes. Actor Patrick Stewart narrates.

Rate

s20e04 Search for the First Americans 1992-10-21 01:00 ⌄

No still

Search for the First Americans

s20e04 · 1992-10-21 · 01:00

NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of the last ice age, as we all learned in school? Or did they arrive thousands of years earlier, possibly by some different route, as new archaeological evidence increasingly hints?

Rate

s20e05 Rafting Through the Grand Canyon 1992-10-28 02:00 ⌄

No still

Rafting Through the Grand Canyon

s20e05 · 1992-10-28 · 02:00

NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first canyon voyage of the 19th-century explorer John Wesley Powell. The Grand Canyon tells the story of nearly 2 billion years of Earth history plus the changes caused by three decades of human intervention.

Rate

s20e06 This Old Pyramid 1992-11-05 02:00 ⌄

No still

This Old Pyramid

s20e06 · 1992-11-05 · 02:00

In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonemason, Roger Hopkins (This Old House), join forces in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza to put clever and sometimes bizarre pyramid construction theories to the test.

Rate

s20e07 Iceman 1992-11-11 02:00 ⌄

No still

Iceman

s20e07 · 1992-11-11 · 02:00

Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found along with artifacts of his vanished way of life. NOVA covers the international effort to unlock the secrets of this astonishing discovery.

Rate

s20e08 Private Lives of Dolphins 1992-11-18 02:00 ⌄

No still

Private Lives of Dolphins

s20e08 · 1992-11-18 · 02:00

NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzees, dolphins have evolved a sophisticated social system that provides clues about the origins and purpose of big brains and intelligence.

Rate

s20e09 Brain Transplant 1992-12-02 02:00 ⌄

No still

Brain Transplant

s20e09 · 1992-12-02 · 02:00

Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unavailable in the US due to the ban on fetal tissue research. "Brain Transplant" continues the remarkable story of a mysterious malady linked to a bad batch of synthetic heroin that NOVA first covered in the 1986 award-winning film, The Case of the Frozen Addict.

Rate

s20e10 Can You Stop People from Drinking? 1992-12-23 02:00 ⌄

No still

Can You Stop People from Drinking?

s20e10 · 1992-12-23 · 02:00

NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new weapons—including prohibition, hypnotism, imprisonment, surveillance, deception, aversion therapy and group therapy as practiced by Alcoholics Anonymous.

Rate

s20e11 Sex and the Single Rhino 1992-12-30 02:00 ⌄

No still

Sex and the Single Rhino

s20e11 · 1992-12-30 · 02:00

NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conservationists need all the tools that biology, ecology, diplomacy and politics can muster if endangered species are to survive beyond the next century.

Rate

s20e12 The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons 1993-01-06 02:00 ⌄

No still

The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons

s20e12 · 1993-01-06 · 02:00

NOVA follows the international team of advisors who are fulfilling the UN mandate to dismantle Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear technology, poison chemicals, missiles and giant guns are some of the threats that inspectors must hunt down in a cat-and-mouse game with the Iraqis.

Rate

s20e13 Can Bombing Win a War? 1993-01-20 02:00 ⌄

No still

Can Bombing Win a War?

s20e13 · 1993-01-20 · 02:00

The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history of strategic bombing and asks whether bombing has now achieved preeminence in warfare.

Rate

s20e14 The Deadly Deception 1993-01-27 02:00 ⌄

No still

The Deadly Deception

s20e14 · 1993-01-27 · 02:00

For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human experiment. George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent, hosts.

Rate

s20e15 Nazis and the Russian Bomb 1993-02-03 02:00 ⌄

No still

Nazis and the Russian Bomb

s20e15 · 1993-02-03 · 02:00

NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of the crash program in 1949, with the explosion of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, shocked the world.

Rate

s20e16 In the Path of a Killer Volcano 1993-02-10 02:00 ⌄

No still

In the Path of a Killer Volcano

s20e16 · 1993-02-10 · 02:00

NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines goes big time, producing the largest volcanic eruption in 80 years.

Rate

s20e17 Can Science Build a Champion Athlete? 1993-02-17 02:00 ⌄

No still

Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

s20e17 · 1993-02-17 · 02:00

Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOVA covers the record-setting trend for improving sports performance with science.

Rate

s20e18 Diving for Pirate Gold 1993-02-24 02:00 ⌄

No still

Diving for Pirate Gold

s20e18 · 1993-02-24 · 02:00

These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plundering sunken ships. NOVA explores the swashbuckling seafaring pirates of old and their present-day successors.

Rate

s20e19 Murder, Rape and DNA 1993-03-03 02:00 ⌄

No still

Murder, Rape and DNA

s20e19 · 1993-03-03 · 02:00

Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is putting increasing numbers of murderers and rapists behind bars.

Rate

s20e20 The Lost Tribe 1993-03-31 02:00 ⌄

No still

The Lost Tribe

s20e20 · 1993-03-31 · 02:00

NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippines in 1971, they were hailed as a Stone Age relic. Now, many anthropologists denounce them as fakes.

Rate