NOVA — Season 33
All 16 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
What unleashed a catastrophic flood that scarred thousands of square miles in the American Northwest?
- 02
The tragic WWII story of the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built.
- 03
The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2
- 04
Is the Vinland Map a priceless depiction of the New World made before Columbus's voyage or a 20th-century fake
- 05
- 06
Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric genius who helped define modern science, was also an obsessive alchemist.
- 07
Experts and eyewitnesses reconstruct the devastating floods that Hurricane Katrina unleashed on New Orleans.
- 08
Could a mummy exhibited for 140 years at an obscure museum in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh?
- 09
Can medical science forecast why some people get sick climbing at high altitude while others don't? A team of doctors and climbers on Denali test the body's response to extreme cold.
- 10
Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well-preserved bodies of people buried long ago in peat bogs.
- 11
David Attenborough probes the mysteries of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.
- 12
A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself.
- 13
Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice
Relive two legendary expeditions—one tragic, one triumphant—to pioneer a route through the Northwest Passage.
- 14
Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Mojave Desert.
- 15
NASA and the European Space Agency dispatch a two-part mission to study Saturn and its enigmatic satellite, Titan.
- 16
New evidence that air pollution has masked the full impact of global warming suggests the world may soon face a heightened climate crisis.
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