Nova

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PBS's premier science-documentary series, which has won six Peabody Awards and more than 20 Emmys (four in 2002 alone) since its 1974 debut. `Nova' clearly, and often engagingly, `demystifies' a vast range of science, technology and history topics---past...read more
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PBS's premier science-documentary series, which has won six Peabody Awards and more than 20 Emmys (four in 2002 alone) since its 1974 debut. `Nova' clearly, and often engagingly, `demystifies' a vast range of science, technology and history topics---past and present---and doesn't neglect the human aspect of the story. Its many memorable shows include 1983's `The Miracle of Life,' about the conception and development of a fetus (which was remade in 2001) and 2002's `Why the Towers Fell.'

Original Release

03/03/1974 on PBS

US Release

03/03/1974

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Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 When Whales Could Walk Wednesday, 31 January 2024
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3 Building the Eiffel Tower Wednesday, 14 February 2024
4 Hunt for the Oldest DNA Wednesday, 21 February 2024
5 A.I. Revolution
6 Great American Eclipse
7 Secrets in Your Data
8 Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
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Directors

Kirk Wolfinger, Sarah Holt, Gary Glassman, Liesl Clark, Daniel McCabe, Doug Hamilton, Terri Randall, Larry Klein, Brian Kaufman, Miles O'Brien, Michael Barnes, Mark Davis, Graham Townsley, Ian Duncan, Chris Schmidt, Joby Lubman, Carl Charlson, Anna Lee Strachan, Rushmore DeNooyer, Oliver Twinch, Peter Yost, David Dugan, Duncan Copp, Francis Gladstone, Julia Cort, Rob Whittlesey, Joseph McMaster, Thomas Lucas, Larkin McPhee, Peter Chinn, Stephen Sweigart, Jon Palfreman, David Murdock, Peter Jones, Kate Dart, Michael Bicks, Noel Dockstader, Noel Buckner, Neil Goodwin, Jackie Mow, Stuart Harris, Joseph Seamans, Gail Willumsen, Scott Willis, Gary Hochman, Alice Harper, Brian Leckey, Llewellyn M. Smith, Ruth Berry, Garfield Kennedy, Elizabeth Arledge, Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, Stephen Cooter, Niobe Thompson, John Hayes Fisher, Martin Gorst, Gwyn Williams, Duncan Bulling, Linda Garmon, Alessandra Bonomolo, Ben Fox, David Sington, Gisela Kaufmann, John Rubin, Matthew Thompson, Phil Bertelsen, Dick Bower, Vincent Liota, Marc Jampolsky, Owen Palmquist, John Bradshaw, Annamaria Talas, Simon Nasht, Jonathan Challis, Mark Everest, Marco Visalberghi, Tom Stubberfield, Malcolm Clark, Tom Cook, Robert Zalisk, Michael Schwarz, Poppy Pinnock, Ian Bremner, Michael Beckham, Callum Macrae, Clementine Cheetham, David Hickman, Andy Liebman, David Axelrod, Thomas Levenson, Nick Clarke Powell, Denise DiIanni, Martin Johnson, Nathan Williams, Ben Shedd, Scott Tiffany, Marian Marzynski, Christian Cascio, Robin Bates, Louise Lockwood, Adrian Pennink, Chad Cohen, Leslie Woodhead, Chris Durlacher, Nick Davidson, Joel Olicker, Gary Johnstone, Paula Apsell, Larry Engel, Stéphane Bégoin, Thierry Ragobert, Caroline Penry-Davey, John Wate, Adam English, Leif Kaldor, Simon Winchcombe, Tetsunori Kikuchi, Michel Terrasse, Nancy Linde, Jaro Savol, C. Rynne, Scott Harper, Stephen Lyons, Simon Baxter, Christopher Knight, Suzanne Campbell-Jones, Yuzo Wada, Toshiyuki Takano, Takeshi Shibasaki, Toshiyuki Ono, Tetsuji Miyagawa, Kyoko Matsubara, Andy Jillings, Ingrid Geser, Haruna Kimura, Nozomu Ishida, Hirotsugu Daikai, Stephanie Kern, David Spence, Giulia Clark, Ingo Nyakairu, David Huntley, Bella Falk, Mat Stimpson, Chantal Hébert, Peter Fison, David Hutt, Christopher Riley, Jonathan Sahula, Nick Green, Gianfranco Pannone, Gilles Cayatte, Stuart Scowcroft, Nicholas de Pencier, Ben Wilson, Ezra Wolfinger, Shayon Maitra, Ashley Morris, William E. Cohen, Bob Cosel, Goro Koide, Brice Habeger, Pierre Bressiant, Graham Russell, Colin Campbell, Olivier Julien, Nick Evans, Peter Williams, Kelly Beaton, Oscar Chan, Kate Szell, Steve Morgan, Ian Cheney, David Alvarado, Harvey Lilley, Ian Glatt, Geoff Luck, Serge Tignères, James Wright, Matthew Orr, Clay Bryce, Jérôme Raynaud, Ingo Helbig, Caroline Wrinch, Bo Gustaf Erikson, Andreas Sawall, Jacinth O'Donnell, Sheila Hayman, Raphaël Hitier, Tom Fowlie, Sean Varley, Valerie Mellon, Carolyn Bertram, Bob Burns, David Duncan, John Miles, Howard Green, Mark Davies, Ray Paunovich, Edward Gray, Jeff Boedeker, Ted Bogosian, Nick Tanner, Horst Stern, Peter Oxley, Lee Reading, Alex Williamson, Bonnie Brennan, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger, Lara Acaster, Ross Young, Quinn Kanaly, Shinichi Murata, Lucy Haken, Richard Reisz, Simon Ludgate, Caroline Toth, Barry Stoner, Dimitri Doganis, Jennifer Lorenz, Amy Bucher, Veronica L. Young, Celia Lowenstein, Carol O. Lofman, Susanne Simpson, Marty Ostrow, Mary Olive Smith, Nigel Paterson, Jason DaSilva, Joe Kennedy, Mike Slee, James Barrat, Robert H. Gardner, Antoine de Maximy, David Breashears, Muffie Meyer, David Belton, Matthew Barrett, Tristan Quinn, Nic Young, Mark Radice, Serena Davies, Mick Jackson, Sharon Shattuck, Su Rynard, Shalini Kantayya, Louise Osmond, Alan Govenar, Robert Dalva, Andrew Snell, Michael Jorgensen, Peter Nicholson, Ben Shackleford, Ben Lawrie, Tony Stark, Steven Latham, Bill Jersey, Brando Quilici, Brian Breger, Jason Sussberg, Eric Stange, Sandra Nichols, Graham Judd, Peter Bate, Kiki Kapany, Christine Le Goff, David Conover, Dick Bartlett, Ellen Hovde, John Capener, Sabin Streeter, Denise DiAnni, Chris Oxley, Ben Bowie, Irv Drasnin, James Lipscomb, Andrew Cohen, François-Xavier Vives, Andy Awes, Randall MacLowry, Ric Esther Bienstock, Henry Corra, Josh Rosen, Nic Stacey, Amir Amirani, David Espar, Jonathan Grupper, Paul Olding, David Lebrun, Malcolm Clark, Kenny Scott, Adam Geiger, Gaby Hornsby, Eleanor Grant, James Brundige, Timothy Clarkson, Nadine Pequeneza, Emily Roe, Simon Singh, Jon Eastman, Jeremy Taylor, Nancy Porter, David Shadrack Smith, Charles Colville, John Borden, Guy Smith, Mike Rossiter, Liz Tucker, Jemima Harrison, Tom Hewitson, Jonathan Dent, Andreas Dirr, Melissa Godoy, Nick Gillam-Smith, Ben Ryder, John Lynch, Henry Chancellor, Ian McCarthy, Jeff Turner, Philip Smith, Kate Bartlett, Edward Hart, Ben Finney, Tim Dunn, Martin O'Collins, Cynthia Page, Christopher McLeod, Steve Greenwood, Sally Ingleton, Mitchell Koss, Jörg Daniel Hissen, Heinz Leger, Linda Harrar, David McNab, Sonya Pemberton, Matt Barrett, Jane Teeling, Pascal Cuissot, Keisuke Hatate, Tomohiro Inoue, Taro Ishii, Atsuki Yamazaki

Writers

Julia Cort, Joseph McMaster, Gary Glassman, Larry Klein, Sarah Holt, Liesl Clark, Doug Hamilton, Daniel McCabe, Terri Randall, Michael Bicks, Rushmore DeNooyer, Miles O'Brien, Brian Kaufman, Mark Davis, Chris Schmidt, Brian Greene, Graham Townsley, Michael Barnes, Simon Campbell-Jones, Elizabeth Arledge, Carl Charlson, Jonathan Grupper, Ian Duncan, Larkin McPhee, Thomas Lucas, Jon Palfreman, David Murdock, Daniel Hart, Bebe Nixon, Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey, Stuart Harris, Rocky Collins, Peter Yost, David Attenborough, Joseph Seamans, Gail Willumsen, Anna Lee Strachan, Alice Harper, Oliver Twinch, Owen Palmquist, Llewellyn M. Smith, Peter Chinn, Nigel Henbest, Stephen Sweigart, Michael Winship, Adrian Pennink, James Bamford, Alan Kwan, Tacita Morway, John Lynch, Chris Durlacher, Thomas Levenson, Linda Garmon, Alec Nisbett, Gisela Kaufmann, John Rubin, Marc Jampolsky, David Dugan, Steven Reich, Phil Bertelsen, Matthew Thompson, Neil Goodwin, Andy Liebman, Peter Jones, Jonathan Renouf, David Smith, Timothy Smith, Robert Zalisk, Richard Hudson, David Axelrod, Sean Varley, Linda Harrar, John Borden, Christopher Riley, David Condon, John Goldsmith, Bettina Lerner, Mark Hobson, Edward Gray, Gary Hochman, Thomas Friedman, Robin Bates, Lisa Leombruni, Jonathan Wickham, Leslie Woodhead, Ted Bogosian, Jeremy Hogarth, Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, Ruth Berry, Nick Davidson, Joel Olicker, David Sington, Paul Olding, Larry Engel, Paula Apsell, Caroline Penry-Davey, Oliver Morse, Adam English, David Bodanis, Christopher Rawlence, Leif Kaldor, Nancy Linde, Sue Halpern, Mitsuhiko Imamori, Satoko Saito, Stephen Lyons, Catherine Rubin, Giulia Clark, Michael Beckham, Michael Scott, Daniel Rondeau, Gilles Cayatte, David Hannan, Douglas J. Emlen, Leslea Mair, Kelly Tyler, Paul Tucker, Claude Valenta, Garfield Kennedy, Hartmut Schwenk, Sally Blake, Jérôme-Cecil Auffret, Masakatu Takao, Kathleen Wildasin, Malcolm Penny, Pierre Bressiant, Marie-Dominique Blanc-Hermeline, Arnaud Devroute, Maxence Lamoureux, Joseph Levine, Oscar Chan, Heather MacDonald, Geoff Luck, Serge Tignères, Matthew Orr, Gideon Gil, Andre Jurieux, Claude Lazlo, Jérôme Raynaud, Caroline Wrinch, Gay Mohrbacher, Wayne Dyer, Bo Gustaf Erikson, Jacinth O'Donnell, Helen Slinger, Raphaël Hitier, Bob Burns, David Duncan, Howard Green, Greg Hood, Jeff Boedeker, Francis Gladstone, Horst Stern, Sari Sapir, Dick Boydell, Eileen Zalisk, Martin Gorst, Lee Reading, Susan Western, Jennifer Beman, Bill Lattanzi, Bonnie Brennan, Graham Chedd, Ronald Blumer, Fanny Burdino, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger, Molly Bedell, Neil Thomas, Caleb Hellerman, Denise DiIanni, Susan K. Lewis, Marian Marzynski, Tom Stubberfield, Richard Burke-Ward, Peter Chin, Niobe Thompson, Veronica L. Young, Susanne Simpson, Hank Whittemore, Marty Ostrow, Sid Bennett, Mike Slee, David McCullough, Antoine de Maximy, Ben Shedd, David Breashears, Tim Haines, Nic Young, Mark Radice, Mick Jackson, Su Rynard, Bill Kurtis, Shalini Kantayya, Alan Govenar, Eric Stange, Michael Jorgensen, Kirk Wolfinger, Eitan Weinreich, Nigel Levy, Jason Sussberg, Klaus Feichtenberger, Graham Judd, Christine Le Goff, Malcolm Gladwell, Sabin Streeter, Irv Drasnin, James Lipscomb, David Guy Elisco, Victoria Coules, Martin Williams, Randall MacLowry, Mark Olshaker, Josh Rosen, Andrew Dean, David Espar, Matthew Collins, Judith Vecchione, Kate Hudec, Gary Johnstone, William Hicklin, Evan I. Schwartz, Tom Shachtman, David Lebrun, Kenny Scott, Vincent Liota, Adam Geiger, Alberto Santos Dumont, Nadine Pequeneza, Jeremy Taylor, Peter Ceresole, Nancy Porter, Robert Dean, Patrick Griffin, Kate O'Sullivan, Tony Edwards, Mike Rossiter, Liz Tucker, Jemima Harrison, Kelly Thomson, Sean B. Carroll, Maria Awes, Kim Shillinglaw, Louise Lockwood, Tim Dunn, Henry Chancellor, Dava Sobel, Michael Douglas, Nathan Williams, Peter Jones, Robert Strange, Michael D. Coe, Christopher McLeod, Sophie Cooper, Mitchell Koss, Susannah Ward, Sandy Medoff, Charles Passerman, Sheila Hairston, Jörg Daniel Hissen, Heinz Leger, Sonya Pemberton, Sylvain Pascaud, Keisuke Hatate, Tomohiro Inoue, Taro Ishii, Atsuki Yamazaki

Cast

Producers

Editors

Susan K. Lewis, Laureen Aguirre, Rob Tinworth, Lauren Feinberg, Sonja Latimore, Sarah Holt, Jedd Ehrmann, Paul Shepard, Doug Quade, Daniel McCabe, Nathan Hendrie, Dick Bartlett, Brian Truglio, Jean Dunoyer, Stephanie Munroe, Steve Audette, Emmanuel Mairesse, Zilke Lemmer, Martin Sage, Vincent Liota, Stephen Lyons, Geoff Gruetzmacher, Anna Auster, Daniel Gaucher, Dave Dillon, Ross Bradley, Justin Vaida, Brian Cassin, Robert Kirwan, Steve Brown, Jon Neuburger, Ben Lavington Martin, Leonard Feinstein, Alex Lewington, Raoul Rosenberg, Ryan Shepheard, Andrea Barrick, Jim Ohm, David Fairhead, Guy Yorke-Wilkinson, Robert Alexander, David Chmura, Mike Lithgow, Martin Elsbury, Rebecca Nieto, Felix Black, Rod McClean, Annie Coppens, Karen Silverstein, Adam Garstone, Caren Myers, Renee Edwards, Patty Stern, Dudley Sargeant, Jacob Finbow, Nick Carline, Sam Green, Arnie Harchik, Dan McCabe, Rob Sylvester, Sarah Hewer, Clyde Wallbanks, Bob Ede, Barbara Burst, Dominic Lester, Justin Milaski, Mairin O'Faolain, Zac Grant, Cassandra Roberts, Matt Pearson, Daniel Garcia Robles, Alexandre Landreau, Francis Robertson, Lauren Aguirre, Andrew Gersh, Robert Swartz, Jonathan Sahula, Brenda Terning, Simon Ruben, David Murray, Dave Monk, John Wolfenden, Zoe Ellis, Simon Rose, Uri Mizrahi, Amy Young, Jason Porthouse, Robin Stokes, Rob Alexander, Tom Perry, Mickey Green, Justin Amsden, Sally Yeadon, Joseph Kleinman, Nigel Barker, Christie Herring, Jean Kawahara, Sebastian Duthy, Mark Robertson, William A. Anderson, Simon Callow-Wright, Christine Jameson Henry, Christopher Donaldson, Justin Badger, Christine Pancott, Jason Savage, Dan Glendenning, Chris Roberts, Andy Lloyd, Kieran Smyth, Ian Strang, Cherry Enoki, Sak Costanzo, Jean Manthorpe, David Cohen, Rick Aplin, Wayne Hyett, Christy Hanna, Ken Takahashi, Nigel Barker, Benjamin Harrison, Gilles Perru, Dave Skowronski, Lars Wiberg, Andrew Flynn, David Eells, Ryan Shake, Paige Smith Lee, Rod McLean, Sabrina Burnard, Brian Seifferlein, Camille Torabpour, Vidura Rajapaksa, Mark Mossmann, Dominic Hutton, Ian Merrylees, Bob Burns, James Hamilton, Takayuki Agui, Masayuki Tani, Brad Keeley, Jennifer Beman, Dickran Manoogian, Daniel Sheire, Robert Kirwan, Paul Bernays, Sarjit Bains, Noel Dockstader, Peter Rhodes, Tchavdar Georgiev, François-Xavier Vives, Andy Awes, John Haptas, Gary Glassman, David Lebrun, Andrew Arestides, Kris Liem, Steve Crabtree, Folko Boermans, Mark Atkin, John Carozzi, Todd Sali, Andrew Ford, Dave Redman, Scott Stevenson, Eric Marin, Carsten Orlt, Scott McEwing, Brian Funck, Jeremy Siefer, Bradley J. Keely, David Arshadi

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