The BEST episodes of NOVA season 29
Every episode of NOVA season 29, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NOVA season 29!
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#1 - Galileo's Battle For The Heavens
Season 29 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/29/2002
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist—that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
#2 - Why The Towers Fell
Season 29 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/30/2002
Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
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#3 - Volcano's Deadly Warning
Season 29 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/12/2002
In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active volcano Galeras in Colombia, confident that no eruption was imminent. This program tells the gripping story of this controversial field trip and the quest to predict when volcanoes will blow.
#4 - Fireworks!
Season 29 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2002
This explosive NOVA presents the colorful history of pyrotechnics and reveals how hi-tech firing systems are transforming public displays into a dazzling, split-second science.
#5 - Lost Roman Treasure
Season 29 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/8/2002
Experts rescue priceless mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disappear beneath a reservoir.
#6 - Sinking City Of Venice
Season 29 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/19/2002
Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
#7 - Death Star
Season 29 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2002
The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
#8 - Neanderthals On Trial
Season 29 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2002
The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
#9 - Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies
Season 29 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/2002
The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.
#10 - Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance
Season 29 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/2002
In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton. This legendary explorer's 1914-1916 Endurance expedition is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Then, in April 2000, we returned to document Shackleton's final trial -- the crossing of South Georgia -- by three of the world's most distinguished mountaineers, Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker and Stephen Venables. Follow the expeditions as they unfolded in real-time on this Web site, and also watch for a NOVA Giant Screen Film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, as well as a NOVA program, "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance," which originally aired on March 26, 2002.
#11 - Fire Wars
Season 29 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2002
In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever, the summer of 2000.
#12 - Killer Disease On Campus
Season 29 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/2002
Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
#13 - The Orchid Hunter
Season 29 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/26/2002
For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-rich and one of the most politically unstable parts of Irian Jaya, the western half of the island of New Guinea.
#14 - The Missing Link
Season 29 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2002
A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans.
#15 - Mysterious Life Of Caves
Season 29 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/1/2002
Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.