NOVA — Season 32

All 15 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

  1. 01

    September 28, 2004 · 1h

    Origins (1): Earth is Born

    In this four part series, NOVA journeys back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself. (Part 1 of 4)

  2. 02

    September 28, 2004 · 1h

    Origins (2): How Life Began

    In this four part series, NOVA journeys back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself. (Part 2 of 4)

  3. 03

    September 29, 2004 · 1h

    Origins (3): Where Are the Aliens?

    In this four part series, NOVA journeys back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself. (Part 3 of 4)

  4. 04

    September 29, 2004 · 1h

    Origins (4): Back to the Beginning

    In this four part series, NOVA journeys back to the beginning of everything: the universe, Earth, and life itself. (Part 4 of 4)

  5. 05

    October 12, 2004 · 1h

    The Most Dangerous Woman in America

    Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s.

  6. 06

    November 9, 2004 · 1h

    America's Stone Age Explorers

    Who were the first Americans, and where did they come from?

  7. 07

    November 16, 2004 · 1h

    Great Escape

    Experts dig into World War II's most daring and technically ingenious prison break.

  8. 08

    November 23, 2004 · 1h

    Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land

    Israel's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans.

  9. 09

    January 4, 2005 · 1h

    Welcome to Mars

    Two rovers roaming the surface of Mars find proof that it was once awash in water.

  10. 10

    January 11, 2005 · 1h

    The Boldest Hoax

    Who perpetrated Piltdown Man, the greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century?

  11. 11

    January 18, 2005 · 1h

    Supersonic Dream

    Engineers, pilots, and others who knew Concorde tell its remarkable story.

  12. 12

    February 8, 2005 · 1h

    The Viking Deception

    Is the Vinland Map a priceless depiction of the New World made before Columbus's voyage or a 20th-century fake

  13. 13

    February 15, 2005 · 1h

    Saving the National Treasures

    Restorers take on the preservation of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

  14. 14

    February 22, 2005 · 1h

    A Daring Flight

    In 1909, Louis Blériot undertakes a heroic first-ever flight across the English Channel.

  15. 15

    March 29, 2005 · 1h

    Wave That Shook the World

    Experts reconstruct the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to prepare for the next big one.

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