NOVA - Season 18

NOVA - Season 18

Season 18

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Datesoct. 3, 1990 - mars 26, 1991
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Episodes

The KGB, The Computer and Me
Season 18Episode 160 min

The KGB, The Computer and Me

What happens when a Berkeley hippie turns detective and gets mixed up with the CIA and the KGB? NOVA follows computer sleuth Cliff Stoll as he tracks a data thief through a maze of military and research computers.
oct. 3, 1990
Neptune's Cold Fury
Season 18Episode 260 min

Neptune's Cold Fury

NOVA visits Neptune, the planet that took Voyager 12 years to reach. Mysteries abound in and around this big, blue world at the outer limits of the Solar System. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.
oct. 9, 1990
To Boldly Go...
Season 18Episode 360 min

To Boldly Go...

NOVA chronicles the Voyager space mission – from Earth to the ends of the Solar System. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and dozens of moons star in this epic voyage of exploration and a new view of the Solar System. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.
oct. 16, 1990
Poisoned Winds of War
Season 18Episode 460 min

Poisoned Winds of War

Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling substances that are easily produced and cruelly effective.
oct. 23, 1990
The Blimp is Back!
Season 18Episode 560 min

The Blimp is Back!

NOVA examines the troubled past and promising future of blimps, zeppelins, cyclocranes and other species of airships. There's life in the old gasbags yet.
oct. 30, 1990
Earthquake!
Season 18Episode 660 min

Earthquake!

NOVA looks at the high-stakes quest to predict earthquakes. Despite past disappointments, geologists still hope to divine the clues that precede nature's ultimate upheavals. Narrated by Avery Brooks.
nov. 6, 1990
Killing Machines
Season 18Episode 760 min

Killing Machines

Robotic weapons that seek out and destroy ships, planes, and other targets are the wave of the future. NOVA questions whether their proliferation may spell an end to superpower invincibility.
nov. 13, 1990
Can the Elephant Be Saved?
Season 18Episode 860 min

Can the Elephant Be Saved?

Is the ivory ban in the elephant's best interest? NOVA looks at the controversial strategies to save the world's largest land animal from extinction.
nov. 20, 1990
We Know Where You Live
Season 18Episode 960 min

We Know Where You Live

NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more about people than they think.
nov. 27, 1990
In the Land of the Llamas
Season 18Episode 1060 min

In the Land of the Llamas

NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, these four members of the camel family are exceptionally well adapted to life in the beautiful high Andes.
déc. 4, 1990
What's Killing the Children?
Season 18Episode 1160 min

What's Killing the Children?

NOVA tracks a mysterious disease that suddenly and fatally attacks the children of a small Brazilian town. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are called in to crack the case.
déc. 18, 1990
Return to Mt. St. Helens
Season 18Episode 1260 min

Return to Mt. St. Helens

NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is recovering from the disaster.
janv. 8, 1991
ConFusion in a Jar
Season 18Episode 1360 min

ConFusion in a Jar

An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NOVA covers the cold fusion controversy.
avr. 30, 1991
The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs
Season 18Episode 1460 min

The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs

NOVA covers the most elaborate expedition ever undertaken in the search for dinosaurs—to China's Gobi desert. Paleontologists brave sandstorms, heat and worse to find their fossils.
févr. 5, 1991
Case of the Flying Dinosaur
Season 18Episode 1560 min

Case of the Flying Dinosaur

NOVA looks at the question of whether present-day birds are dinosaurs. The origin of birds, avian dinosaurs, is explored.
févr. 12, 1991
T-Rex Exposed
Season 18Episode 1660 min

T-Rex Exposed

Tyrannosaurus rex, a kind of dinosaur, recently turned up in a nearly complete skeleton in Montana. NOVA follows the dig to extract the bones and looks at the science and lore of dinosaurs in general.
févr. 19, 1991
The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman
Season 18Episode 1760 min

The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman

In the first program of a three-part series on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the mysterious genius behind the world's first satellite, the first man to orbit the Earth and other early Russian triumphs in space.
févr. 26, 1991
The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon
Season 18Episode 1860 min

The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon

NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the Moon ahead of the Americans.
févr. 27, 1991
The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission
Season 18Episode 1960 min

The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission

In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and recovery of a cosmonaut crew that visits the Soviet space station Mir. Unexpected emergencies show that space travel is still far from routine.
févr. 28, 1991
Swimming with Whales
Season 18Episode 2060 min

Swimming with Whales

Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search of whales. Humpbacks, Killers, Grays and other whale species make their appearance in spectacular, never-before-seen footage both above and below the waves.
mars 5, 1991
The Chip vs. the Chessmaster
Season 18Episode 2160 min

The Chip vs. the Chessmaster

The computer chess champ matches wits with the human world titleholder.
mars 26, 1991

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