Nova: Season 44

Building Chernobyl's Megatomb

The Nuclear Option

53min - Five years after the Fukushima disaster, the future of nuclear power is in question. Join engineers as they embark on an unprecedented cleanup and investigate new nuclear technologies that would prevent future meltdowns.

Ultimate Cruise Ship

52min - Weighing 54,000 gross tons and stretching over two football fields, the Seven Seas Explorer is no ordinary boat. Join pioneering shipbuilders as they endeavor to build the ultimate luxury cruise ship.

The Origami Revolution

Holocaust Escape Tunnel

Chinese Chariot Revealed

Eclipse Over America

Secrets of the Shining Knight

52min - Discover what it was like to be a knight in shining armor and follow the historic manufacturing process. Join master armorers as they re-engineer some of the greatest armor ever made and then put it to the test.

Ghosts of Stonehenge

Secrets of the Forbidden City

52min - Discover the ingenious engineering of Beijing's Forbidden City, the power center of imperial China for nearly 500 years. Discover how the design of this vast complex of palaces and temples enabled it to survive centuries of earthquakes.

Killer Volcanoes

53min - Killer Volcanoes spotlights the search for a mystery volcano that plunged the globe into a deep freeze and inflicted famine on medieval Europe.

Killer Hurricanes

52min - Killer Hurricanes pursues the riddle of an 18th century Caribbean superstorm that killed 20,000, the highest known death toll of any single weather event.

Killer Floods

53min - In Killer Floods NOVA discovers gigantic scars in the landscape that testify to North America’s greatest ever megaflood, which tore across the western states with 60 times the flow of today’s Amazon.

Bird Brain

Day the Dinosaurs Died