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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

Could scientists recreate Hollywood's Jurassic Park using 100-million-year-old dinosaur DNA? Director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Goldblum

NOVA biography of Albert Einstein, covering his early years, relativity research and personal life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: F. Murray Abraham

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

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

NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler

The events and coincidences that led to rapid advances in human intelligence 50,000 years ago.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liam Neeson

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Donat

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

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

The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light,...

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

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

In Egypt's Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julia Montgomery Brown

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Indira Varma

Sea battles in the morning and gladiator fights in the afternoon with wild beasts magically appearing in the arena? A subterranean archaeologist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stefan Godin

Determined to understand the repeating patterns he was finding in nature, French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used an early form of computer...

Genre: Documentary

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Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists can study it to learn about the planet's origins.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler