NOVA
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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1.The Making Of A Natural History Film
03-03-197455mNOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood-...
- Ep 2
2.Where Did the Colorado Go?
10-03-197455mNOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and A...
- Ep 3
3.Whales, Dolphins, and Men
17-03-197455mNOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
- Ep 4
4.The Search For Life
24-03-197455mDoes life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth and examines the Vik...
- Ep 5
5.Last of the Cuiva
31-03-197455mHow does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings betwee...
- Ep 6
6.Strange Sleep
07-04-197455mMedicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently t...
- Ep 7
7.The Crab Nebula
14-04-197455mIn 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying star that was bigger th...
- Ep 8
8.Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation
21-04-197455mBirds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, foc...
- Ep 9
9.Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?
28-04-197455mThe advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerou...
- Ep 10
10.The First Signs Of Washoe
05-05-197455mWashoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unu...
- Ep 11
11.The Case of the Midwife Toad
12-05-197455mWhen Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the i...
- Ep 12
12.Fusion: The Energy of Promise
10.019-05-197455mNuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells...
- Ep 13
13.The Mystery Of The Anasazi
26-05-197455mWho were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or n...
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