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Season 21

(1994)

Cast

Episodes

Codebreakers poster

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January 18, 1994

NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The progr…

Dinosaurs of the Gobi poster

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January 25, 1994

Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural…

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February 1, 1994

NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship.…

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February 8, 1994

NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the …

Can Chimps Talk? poster

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February 15, 1994

NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human…

In Search of Human Origins, Part One poster

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February 28, 1994

In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human sp…

In Search of Human Origins, Part Two poster

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March 1, 1994

Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to…

In Search of Human Origins, Part Three poster

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March 2, 1994

At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act …

Can China Kick the Habit? poster

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April 12, 1994

NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western advertising and trading practices have exace…

Aircraft Carrier! poster

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April 19, 1994

NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence-where every day…

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October 11, 1994

Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelligent birds: parrots…

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October 18, 1994

NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social worke…

Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird poster

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October 25, 1994

NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extinction over a century a…

What's New About Menopause poster

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November 1, 1994

NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical and ethical controve…

The Tribe that Time Forgot poster

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November 8, 1994

NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismembered and partially at…

Killer Quake! poster

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November 15, 1994

NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tragedy, seismic pres…

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November 29, 1994

Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10 feet of ash, prese…

Rescue Mission in Space poster

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December 6, 1994

Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telescope was recently re…

Journey to the Sacred Sea poster

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December 20, 1994

NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth.…

In Search of the First Language poster

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December 27, 1994

NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory tha…