NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence-where every day is a constant drill of launching and landing aircraft atop a floating city of 5,000 people. The action includes Top Gun mock combat exercises and live-ammunition patrols over Iraq.
Aired: Jan 18, 1994 NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrac...
Aired: Jan 25, 1994 Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA...
Aired: Feb 1, 1994 NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete...
Aired: Feb 8, 1994 NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are m...
Aired: Feb 15, 1994 NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have bee...
6. In Search of Human Origins: Part I
Aired: Feb 28, 1994In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson pro...
7. In Search of Human Origins: Part II
Aired: Mar 1, 1994Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two millio...
8. In Search of Human Origins: Part III
Aired: Mar 2, 1994At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, mor...
Aired: Apr 12, 1994 NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western ad...
Aired: Apr 19, 1994 NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy airc...
Aired: Oct 11, 1994 Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's mos...
12. The Secret of the Wild Child
Aired: Oct 18, 1994NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total...
13. Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird
Aired: Oct 25, 1994NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that...
14. What's New About Menopause
Aired: Nov 1, 1994NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and ...
15. The Tribe That Time Forgot
Aired: Nov 8, 1994NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe-...
Aired: Nov 15, 1994 NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to re...
Aired: Nov 29, 1994 Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is n...
Aired: Dec 6, 1994 Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, ...
Aired: Dec 20, 1994 NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing ...
20. In Search of the First Language
Aired: Dec 27, 1994NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of E...
