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David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Robert DePalma has made an incredible...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Attenborough

Dinosaurs are generally considered tropical animals. So what are their fossils doing north of the arctic circle? Paleontologists battle the fierce...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a rocky, ancient river delta. The rover will stow...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler

Astrophysicists show how black holes might hold answers to how the universe evolved, leading to life on Earth and, ultimately, the human race.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janna Levin

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith David

In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show our universe...

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The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin of birds and the evolution of flight.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Thomas

Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Damien Boisseau

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alkibiadis Bakogianis

Archaeologists believe that a massive grave in a vicarage garden in Derbyshire may be the last resting place of a vast army of thousands of warriors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Toby Jones

The collaboration between architects, scientists, archaeologists and engineers in their efforts to restore Notre Dame.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Indira Varma

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karl Steudel

Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler

A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandros Vardaxoglou

Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

Considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture in the world, Hagia Sophia was constructed on a scale unprecedented in human history. Built...

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Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lance Lewman

NOVA goes behind the scenes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to offer a look at the construction and launch of two Martian exploratory rovers:...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Ross