NOVA
Season 20

s20e01 / Animal Olympians II

26th Aug '92 - 1:00am
Animal Olympians II Summary

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

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s20e02 / The Genius Behind the Bomb

30th Sep '92 - 1:00am
The Genius Behind the Bomb Summary

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.

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s20e03 / Mind of a Serial Killer

14th Oct '92 - 1:00am
Mind of a Serial Killer Summary

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 hugger who targeted prostitutes. Actor Patrick Stewart narrates.

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s20e04 / Search for the First Americans

21st Oct '92 - 1:00am
Search for the First Americans Summary

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?

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s20e05 / Rafting Through the Grand Canyon

28th Oct '92 - 2:00am
Rafting Through the Grand Canyon Summary

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.

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s20e06 / This Old Pyramid

5th Nov '92 - 2:00am
This Old Pyramid Summary

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.

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s20e07 / Iceman

11th Nov '92 - 2:00am
Iceman Summary

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.

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s20e08 / Private Lives of Dolphins

18th Nov '92 - 2:00am
Private Lives of Dolphins Summary

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.

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s20e09 / Brain Transplant

2nd Dec '92 - 2:00am
Brain Transplant Summary

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."

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s20e10 / Can You Stop People From Drinking?

23rd Dec '92 - 2:00am
Can You Stop People From Drinking? Summary

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.

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s20e11 / Sex and the Single Rhino

30th Dec '92 - 2:00am
Sex and the Single Rhino Summary

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.

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s20e12 / The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons

13th Jan '93 - 2:00am
The Hunt for Saddam's Secret Weapons Summary

Coming Soon...

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s20e13 / Can Bombing Win a War?

20th Jan '93 - 2:00am
Can Bombing Win a War? Summary

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.

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s20e14 / The Deadly Deception

27th Jan '93 - 2:00am
The Deadly Deception Summary

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.

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s20e15 / Nazis and the Russian Bomb

3rd Feb '93 - 2:00am
Nazis and the Russian Bomb Summary

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.

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s20e16 / In the Path of a Killer Volcano

10th Feb '93 - 2:00am
In the Path of a Killer Volcano Summary

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

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s20e17 / Can Science Build a Champion Athlete?

17th Feb '93 - 2:00am
Can Science Build a Champion Athlete? Summary

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.

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s20e18 / Diving for Pirate Gold

24th Feb '93 - 2:00am
Diving for Pirate Gold Summary

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.

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s20e19 / Murder, Rape and DNA

3rd Mar '93 - 2:00am
Murder, Rape and DNA Summary

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 cuddleers and rapists behind bars.

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s20e20 / The Lost Tribe

31st Mar '93 - 2:00am
The Lost Tribe Summary

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.

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