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Season 29

(2001)

Cast

Episodes

Search for a Safe Cigarette poster

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October 2, 2001

The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.

18 Ways to Make a Baby poster

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October 9, 2001

The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.

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October 23, 2001

This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain w…

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October 30, 2001

The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.

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November 6, 2001

NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from …

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November 13, 2001

The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple wi…

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November 20, 2001

A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microim…

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December 11, 2001

Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, t…

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December 25, 2001

The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when …

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January 8, 2002

The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.

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January 22, 2002

The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.

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January 29, 2002

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies poster

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February 5, 2002

The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big o…

The Missing Link poster

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February 26, 2002

A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the an…

Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance poster

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March 26, 2002

In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant an…

Why the Towers Fell poster

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April 30, 2002

Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?

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May 7, 2002

In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as t…