Season 29
17 episodes · Oct 2, 2001
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S29E1Search for a Safe Cigarette
Oct 2, 200155mThe program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.
S29E218 Ways to Make a Baby
Oct 9, 200155mThe program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
S29E3Secrets of the Mind
Oct 23, 200155mThis NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain works.
S29E4Sex: Unknown
Oct 30, 200155mThe film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.
S29E5Russia's Nuclear Warriors
Nov 6, 200155mNOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from the top Russian politicians and Armageddon. Hosted by Vladimir Pozner, Russia's top television journalist, this startling film shows that despite low pay and the tedious existence that these soldiers and their families live with, these men are motivated by a strong sense of patriotic duty and responsibility for the ultimate powers of destruction at their fingertips, in a job that requires complete perfection.
S29E6Bioterror
Nov 13, 200155mThe film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple with the current threat of anthrax and other attacks.
S29E7Life's Greatest Miracle
Nov 20, 200155mA sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson to track human development from embryo to newborn.
S29E8Methuselah Tree
Dec 11, 200155mMarked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine of California's White Mountains.
S29E9Flying Casanovas
Dec 25, 200155mThe program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.
S29E10Death Star
Jan 8, 200255mThe program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
S29E11Neanderthals on Trial
Jan 22, 200255mThe film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
S29E13Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
Feb 5, 200255mThe program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.
S29E14The Missing Link
Feb 26, 200255mA paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans.
S29E15Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
Mar 26, 200255mIn October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton. This legendary explorer's 1914-1916 Endurance expedition is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Then, in April 2000, we returned to document Shackleton's final trial -- the crossing of South Georgia -- by three of the world's most distinguished mountaineers, Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker and Stephen Venables. Follow the expeditions as they unfolded in real-time on this Web site, and also watch for a NOVA Giant Screen Film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, as well as a NOVA program, "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance," which originally aired on March 26, 2002.
S29E16Why the Towers Fell
Apr 30, 200255mCan lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
S29E17Fire Wars
May 7, 200255mIn the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever, the summer of 2000.