This explosive NOVA presents the colorful history of pyrotechnics and reveals how hi-tech firing systems are transforming public displays into a dazzling, split-second science.

NOVA Season 29 Episodes...

• s29e01 - Search For A Safe Cigarette
• s29e02 - 18 Ways To Make A Baby
• s29e03 - Secrets Of The Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)
• s29e04 - Sex: Unknown
• s29e05 - Russia's Nuclear Warriors
• s29e06 - Bioterror
• s29e07 - Life's Greatest Miracle
• s29e08 - Methuselah Tree
• s29e09 - Flying Casanovas
• s29e10 - Death Star
• s29e11 - Neanderthals On Trial
• s29e12 - Fireworks!
• s29e13 - Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies
• s29e14 - The Missing Link
• s29e15 - Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance
• s29e16 - Why The Towers Fell
• s29e17 - Fire Wars

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.