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Origins: Earth is Born

Origins: Earth is Born

Season 31 Episode 11
51:52
Origins: How Life Began

Origins: How Life Began

Season 31 Episode 12
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Origins: Where are the Aliens?

Origins: Where are the Aliens?

Season 31 Episode 13
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Origins: Back to the Beginning

Origins: Back to the Beginning

Season 31 Episode 14
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Einstein's Big Idea

Einstein's Big Idea

Season 32 Episode 13
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Storm That Drowned a City

Storm That Drowned a City

Season 32 Episode 18
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Forgotten Genius

Forgotten Genius

Season 34 Episode 3
1:52:42
Car of the Future

Car of the Future

Season 35 Episode 9
53:12
Doctors' Diaries

Doctors' Diaries

Season 36 Episode 8
1:42:48
Mind Over Money

Mind Over Money

Season 37 Episode 7
52:52
Deadliest Earthquakes

Deadliest Earthquakes

Season 38 Episode 1
53:05
Finding Life Beyond Earth

Finding Life Beyond Earth

Season 38 Episode 13
1:43:15
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Life and Death in the War Zone

Season 31 Episode 6

While other reporters were embedded in fighting units during the Iraq War, NOVA was covering the emergency medical response, living night and day with the doctors, nurses, and medics in a frontline Combat Support Hospital (CSH). The program captures a period of the conflict in April and May of 2003 when CSH units faced a deluge of injured Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

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