NOVA Season 29 Episode 8 Synopsis

Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine of California's White Mountains.

NOVA Season 29 Episodes...

• s29e01 - Search For A Safe Cigarette
• s29e02 - 18 Ways To Make A Baby
• s29e03 - Secrets Of The Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)
• s29e04 - Sex: Unknown
• s29e05 - Russia's Nuclear Warriors
• s29e06 - Bioterror
• s29e07 - Life's Greatest Miracle
• s29e08 - Methuselah Tree
• s29e09 - Flying Casanovas
• s29e10 - Death Star
• s29e11 - Neanderthals On Trial
• s29e12 - Fireworks!
• s29e13 - Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies
• s29e14 - The Missing Link
• s29e15 - Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance
• s29e16 - Why The Towers Fell
• s29e17 - Fire Wars

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.