This long-running, award-winning documentary series focuses on science, its many applications, speculation, history, and researchers. It explores a wide range of topics, from the natural world to technology and current events, often with a focus on how science shapes our lives, planet, and universe.

NOVA has been recognized with multiple Peabody Awards and Emmy Awards, and earned the first-ever Public Service Award from the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.

The show debuted in 1974.

Grade Level: 6th grade and up. Approximately one-hour episodes.

Program descriptions:

Ancient Builders of the Amazon
Ancient Maya Metropolis
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Hidden Volcano Abyss
Can We Cool the Planet?
Looking for Life on Mars
Secrets of the Sun
Asteroids Spark of Life
Beyond the Now
Decoding da Vinci
Einstein's Quantum Riddle
Secrets in Your Data
Your Brain - Perception Deception
Your Brain - Who's Controlling It
Superfloods: Why Deadly Flash Floods Are on the Rise
First Peoples - The Ancient Tribes That Settled in the Americas
Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World - The History of the Telescope
Ancient Desert Death Trap
Bird Brain
Building the Eiffel Tower
Decoding da Vinci
Decoding the Great Pyramid
Great Mammoth Mystery
Human Origins
Inside Einstein's Mind
Lost Tombs of Notre Dame
AI Revolution
Angkor Hidden Jungle Empire
Artemis II Return to the Moon
B-29 Frozen in Time
Basic Pacific The Mysteries of Earth's Largest Ocean
Can Dogs Talk?
Cat Tales
Inside of China's Tech Boom
Rain Bombs
Secrets of the Forest
Secrets of the Parthenon Documentary
Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build
The Cannabis Question
The Gilded Age
The Second Moment of Creation - Civilizations
Treasure of the Caribbean