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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

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith David

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liam Neeson

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

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

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

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alkibiadis Bakogianis

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Indira Varma

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On a summer's night, there's nothing more magic than watching the soft glow of fireflies switching on and off. Few other life forms on land can light...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Salvatore Vecchio

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

NOVA goes behind the scenes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to offer a look at the construction and launch of two Martian exploratory rovers:...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Ross

At the dawn of the Christian era, Petra, capital of the rich kingdom of the Nabataeans, bordering the deserts of Arabia, Syria and the Negev, was...

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

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An Italian company attempts to build the world's most luxurious cruise ship, but must navigate an ocean of financial and safety concerns to do so.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eric Meyers