Horizon
8.5·1964 - now·1h 0m·61S·returning
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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61Horizon follows the work of R. Buckminster Fuller and his research of the geodesic dome.
Dr. Frank Darling and Dr. Eric Edson discuss different environmental priorities.
A reconstruction of a Michael Faraday lecture last given in December 1860.
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Jul 25, 1964·1h 0m
Horizon explores the findings of physicists at Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. Who, after two years and thousands of photographs, have identified a predicted new particle which has a unique charact…
Horizon looks at the work of the National Institute for Medical Research.
Prof. Arthur C. Clarke, Derek Price and Nigel Balchin discuss the past and future of science.
The work of amateur scientists.
Horizon investigates the 'Tots and Quots' and the 'Woodgeries' two groups set up by scientists before the second world war to discuss the future of science and how it effects society.
Horizon takes a look at science in the spirit of Christmas.
At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success
Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget of one hundred milli…
Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.
Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.
Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion detector which has chang…
Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where an experiment is running to settle this, and talks to Dr. Lip…
Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode also includes a report on a 36 year study of the cell wall b…
Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefully tested drug on the market today. But some scientists and do…
Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air Pollution Research C…
When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft passengers and fast dr…
Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his career in medical res…
Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his new activities and how he feels about working in the golden We…
This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China. An account of the space probe Mariner IV which will be fl…
Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist George Schaller.
The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science conference in Lindau, Germa…
Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his work and shows some …
Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.
On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitement of seeing Newton…
What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three weeks hunting for a minute sea creature to see how its eyes wo…
Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.
Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geophysical methods intended for mineral surveying, he has dete…
Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.
A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor Martin Ryle, and M. Émile-Jacques Blu…
Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. Then, a mathematicia…
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell us things we …
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs. The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association …
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley. For a country striving to raise its productivity, the supply of applie…
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation. The eminent Canad…
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a helicopter powered b…
A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth. One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an animated film by Stan V…
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown. An account of a remarkable sur…
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone. …
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen. By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. The population of som…
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E10 · Man in Space
May 8, 1966·40m
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Calder of the New Scient…
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct. The world knows all about the uncanny mat…
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of tolerance on the human…
Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity. Sir Solly Zuckerman talks about his new book Scientists and War which outlines his views …
Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells. An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of the world's most influential scientific journals, Nature, in…
Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many parents know that their child has a problem but do not have the necessary insight to deal with it. A psychiatrist uses drawings …
Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) which was formed in 1856.
Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.
Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and then for the American space program.
Doctors and psychologists talk about the problems inherent in the determination of sex.
This program shows the work of Ernst Chain, one of the discoverers of antibiotics, now a Professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College in London.
The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our scientists paid enough to attract them into the right jobs?
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
Medical advances have made it possible for 'life' to be maintained in an unconscious patient who has irrevocable brain damage and who might also be dependent on artificial aids to circulation and resp…
In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held for Russian school children to qualify new students.
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an eighty-four-year-old ex-milk man, has never dreamed in his lif…
Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapons? What is the horror they can cause? Is there any moral justification for their use?
Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now going on to discover whether a virus is one of the causes of cancer in humans and at the implications…
Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest scientific evidence in detail.
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going on step by step, month by month. This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the…
Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbon 14 used for determining how old an object is.
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to project images onto film using only his thoughts.
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.
Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career beginning from his early work on airships.
This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal experimentation in medical work.
In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system has prevented the growth of a drug-based criminal world, but Americans say that our system only worke…
Horizon explores the problem of increasing traffic in Britain.
In this episode, Horizon looks into the advances in medical science.
This episode presents the view by G. M. Carstairs, social psychiatrist, about the pleasures and problems of life in Britain in 1968.
Horizon looks into modern methods of crime investigation.
Horizon follows reporter Paul Ferris as he examines the causes and motitives for murder.
This is the story of the life and career of Winston Churchill's scientific advisor, Lord Cherwell, during World War II.
Horizon explores "factory farming" techniques for chickens and other livestock.
In this episode, Dr. Alex Comfort looks at the scientific evidence for old age and the problems caused by ageing.
Horizon investigates how science is used to enhance weapons of war, tactics, and strategy.
In 1917, Russia had fewer than twenty doctors for every million of her people. Today, the figure is over 2,000: almost twice as many as in this country. The organisational changes that were necessary …
In this episode, Horizon looks into controversial medicine practices in Nigeria.
This episode by Horizon is about Irene Kassorlas, who's new treatment for autism has produced positive results with mute children.
Horizon reports on speech and comprehension disorders in children, and how to educate them.
Horizon explores how computers are changing our way of life.
Horizon reports on the effects of the birth control pill on the body and how the pill can effect the changes in glucose metabolism.
This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble misused his invention of dynamite.
Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based on the wheel.
In this episode, Horizon investigates the study of science by african americans.
In this episode, Horizon reports on the exploration and survey of the oceans of the world.
Prof. N.W.G. MacIntosh investigates the origin of the Talgai Skull found in Australia in 1886.
In this episode of Horizon, Michael Balfour invites us to share in the mystery and magic of the "Magic Lantern".
Horizon probes into the problems of obesity and investigates cures for obesity using diets and drugs.
A report by Horizon examining animal intelligence and looking at the reasons why no other animal has matched man in mental ability.
Horizon investigates the importance of the eye, diseases of the eye, and current research on sight.
In this episode, Horizon reports on how in the last 2 years, the desert locust has been breeding in Southern Arabia by the Red Sea.
Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intelligence.
This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his family, friends, and critics.
Horizon looks into music therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders.
This investigation by Horizon centers on the problems caused by venerial disease both in detection and cure.
In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controversy and skepticism. Cecil King, having spent a lifetime in Fleet Street, discusses, with due cautio…
This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing science.
This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scientific methods to persuade us to buy.
Horizon looks into what man has seen and done during 10 years of space exploration.
Horizon investigates new medical techniques to diagnose and treat unborn infants leading to a higher survival rate.
Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field of low temperature science. He is acknowledged among his friends as an expert in the kitchen.
This episode of Horizon looks at the communication systems of animals.
Horizon investigates pollution problems in Britain with sewage and industrial wastes, and at the health risks associated with the pollution.
In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the sea, the shark.
Sebastian Z. de Ferranti gives the Royal Society lecture for 1969 on technological development.
The US spent $40 billion to put man on the moon, yet the real objectives of the space program remain obscure.
Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry, meteorology, and zoology.
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increased technology.
Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible explanations and their relevance not only to schizophrenics but to the mystery of the human mind.
In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is closely connected with personality.
Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relationship with men came about.
Horizon investigates surveys being carried out on British children to test Freud's theories.
In this episode, Roman Vishniac talks about his study of living things in their natural habitat as his life's work.
Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.
The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these are what Colonel Brian Shaw, marksman and lecturer in chemistry, has been using in his now famous l…
A report on current research into cancer and the subsequent knowledge and problems it brings.
For some time now rhinos have been disturbing the workers in the Tanzanian sugar plantation and ripping open the plastic water pipes to get at the water. These incidents, and the hunting of the rhinos…
Horizon investigates the limits of survival under extreme and normal environmental conditions.
Horizon reports on the development of the Dutch nation's continuing fight against the encroachment of the sea.
Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.
Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles of the major parties involved.
Horizon explores the problem of feeding the growing world population.
Horizon investigate the dilemma of whether a scientist should put his loyalty to mankind before his loyalty to his country.
This episode of Horizon centers on the study of the moon rock samples brought back to the earth by the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
Horizon investigates the history of the life and work of Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of the firm Rolls Royce Royce.
This is the first part of a two-part episode on diseases afflicting people today. Horizon looks at the issue of stress on the body.
This is the second part of a two-part episode on diseases afflicting people today. Horizon looks at the causes of coronary heart disease and modern techniques of treatment and cure.
Horizon exams the current scientific research into human sexual behavior.
In this episode, Horizon reports on how much of the sea coast around Britain is becoming polluted.
This episode deals with the problems of infertility and showing the investigations being carried out.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, a forensic pathologist, talks about the role of the scientific witness in the criminal courts.
A look at some of the work carried out in Britain into the development of new materials for industry.
This episode of Horizon looks at the question of the treatment of criminals in Britain.
Horizon reports on the Mental Health Service in Britain.
This episode surrounds the two channels of human communication - verbal and non-verbal.
A Horizon investigation into the research done in Britain and the USA to support the 'Continental Drift' theory.
This episode of Horizon looks at the National Health Service of Britain and the enormous demands that are imposed on it.
This report by Horizon looks into meteorological research in Britain and America.
An investigation by Horizon reveals information about the use of artificial additives and preservatives in the manufacture of modern processed foods.
On this episode of Horizon, the science behind the cosmetic industry and the social and psychological importance of beauty and fragrance is revealed.
This a a report by Horizon on the research in the USA and Canada into the habits of the wolf in its natural surroundings and in captivity.
Horizon explores the use and role of statistics in modern society and how they are needed for planning.
Horizon reveals new evidence found by archaeologists that have now traced our origins back to the extinct ape man of Africa.
In this episode, Horizon reports on how the TV series "Man and Science Today" compares the British National Health System with the private health system in the USA.
The population explosion of the Crown of Thorns starfish is investigated by Horizon.
Horizon brings you the history and modern day functions of the Natural History museum in Kensington, Britain.
This is an episode on problems dealing with viral diseases such as measles.
Horizon looks at the work of scientists as they unravel the problems of providing us with water.
In this story, Horizon investigates the issue of controversial animal experiments between anti-vivisectionists and scientists.
Horizon reports on the future of 30,000 children in Britain that are mentally retarded.
Horizon reports on the work of the British Nature Conservancy and how scientists are trying to find out about nature.
This episode of Horizon reports on the revolution in the size of oil tankers showing present and future planned methods of construction.
Horizon looks at problems caused by the rapid reproduction rate of insects and their increasing resistance to pesticides.
Horizon reports on Professor Claude Levi-Strauss who has been studying and analyzing the so-called primitive man for more than 30 years.
This episode of Horizon investigates the history of tanks in the last fifty years and the dominant role they have played in land warfare.
In this story, Horizon investigates the artificial intelligence of computers by watching a chess game.
Horizon examines some of the techniques used by the boom industry of Management Selection.
Horizon investigates the work of geologists and seismologists trying to predict the date of the next great earthquake in San Francisco, California.
Horizon reports on some of the pure scientific research work carried out at the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute.
This episode by Horizon is a dramatized reconstruction from original transcripts of the inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster.
In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breeding enough to ensure their survival in captivity
In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, and the Institute of Child Health.
Horizon explores the island of New Guinea and its cultural changes going on there.
This episode of Horizon looks at the growing arsenal of nuclear weapons over the last 25 years and the effects it has on the arms race.
The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This episode investigates the facts about drug abuse and experimental work undertaken in this area.
Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find out why.
Horizon interviews ecologists that claim that man is irrevocably destroying its habitat.
Horizon investigates medical student training at the St. Thomas hospital in London, England.
Horizon explores the causes, and looks for way to prevent car accidents
This report by Horizon looks at the long term ecological study of the forest at Wytham Wood, Oxon, in England.
In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologists of the time.
This report by Horizon explores care for the aged, for both medical and welfare services in Britain.
Horizon reports on the famous protagonist of "The Origin of Species," Thomas Henry Huxley.
This episode of Horizon examines how cells organize to become complex organs, and bodies.
At the moment, legal abortions in the UK are being performed at the rate of over 90,000 a year and it is considered that the number is likely to rise. But why are so many people not prepared to use co…
Horizon reports on food technology now experimenting with meat substitutes.
Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the…
Horizon investigates how to treat depressive illneses.
This episode of Horizon reports on the development of the aircraft bomber throughout periods of war.
Horizon explores the field of palaeontology, the study of dinosaurs.
This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's civil defense program, and to see if it is adequate in the event of a nuclear war.
Horizon investigates rheumatism, and looks at why this disease is under-researched.
Can new born babies solve complex problems? Horizon works with psychologists to see how they measure this capacity.
Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and planning process of Liverpool, England.
This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherford, followed by a report of the Cavendish Labratory in Cambridge, England.
Horizon explores a primitive tribe of Yanomamo Indians living in southern Venezula.
This episode of Horizon looks in the ancient cave paintings found in France.
This episode of Horizon reports on how the Crab Nebula was discovered, and continuing observation of the space encounter.
Horizon reports on the continuing problem of the city of Venice, Italy sinking into the sea.
This report by Horizon is about Prof. Hean Piaget and her child center education theory.
Horizon presents the history of the submarines, from pre-World War I to today's nuclear powered submarines.
This episode of Horizon investigates strange new inventions.
In this episode of Horizon, you find out how feasible it is to build a 35 mile long tunnel between Britain and France.
Horizon explores the American Navajo indian tribe of New Mexico, in the United States.
Why do humans have such a poor sense of smell as compared to animals? Horizon investigates why.
This story by Horizon reports on Malaria in the country of Gambia, in West Africa.
Horizon investigates reports of strange phenomena and about what the scientific theory is about these phenomena.
Horizon explores if a doctor's treatment of the patient is always in the best interest of the patient.
In this episode, Horizon looks the the ecological movement, and the resistance against the movement in Britain, and the USA.
In this report by Horizon, the effect of boring jobs on industrial relations is looked at, along with work and job satisfaction.
Horizon looks at the life of whales and dolphins, and how they interact with man.
Horizon investigates the various conceptions of "race" that have arisen since the 17th century.
Horizon investigates the use of hydroelectric power in Africa, at Lake Kariba, Lake Volta, and Lake Nasser.
This episode of Horizon follows the expedition of two German naturalists exploring the Northwestern desert of the Sahara in Africa.
This story by Horizon is about American research into techniques for controlling bodily functions with the mind.
In this report, Horizon looks at the various aspects of volcanoes and explaining the views of some vulcanologists.
Horizon presents a study of Thomas Alva Edison and his achievements as an inventor.
Horizon reviews the history of train accidents and the new safety precautions to prevent them.
Horizon investigates the threat to the Snowdonia National Park in Britain, from mining companies.
Horizon reports on modern research in the prevention of tooth decay.
How do muscles contract and how are they are controlled from the brain through nerve fibers are the subjects of this Horizon episode.
This episode of Horizon explores bacteria and other creatures that live on our skin and in our hair.
In this episode by Horizon, we take a look at sexual problems, particularly for impotence, frigidity, and premature ejaculation.
Horizon explores the development and techniques of brain surgery from the 1950's to present-day in Britain and the USA.
Horizon reconstructs a day in the life of the old Charing Cross Hospital in Britain just fifty years ago.
This episode of Horizon looks the how the ice age physically shaped the British landscape.
This episode of Horizon illustrates the ideas of Prof. W.G. Hoskins on the development of the English landscape from Iron Age times to the present.
Horizon reports that High Energy Physics shows a pattern of thought that challenges the very roots of commonplace belief.
This episode of Horizon is about the east coast marshes of America, called the "Wetlands" and the effects of urban development on the wildlife.
Horizon investigates the research that is going into the ageing process to find out its causes and possible prevention.
This epidsode of Horizon reports on how a group of zoologists at Oxford Scientific Films in England makes films.
Horizon documents fire prevention, and fire fighting.
This episode of Horizon centers on the exploitation of oil in Alaska, and the effects of it on the Eskimoes and the local wildlife.
Horizon reports on people suffering from kidney diseases and the current forms of treatment.
Horizon documents how in Europe, they are using water canals for industrial transport, as an alternative to roads.
Horizon examines sources of infection that have, and could still, cause epidemics in Britain.
This episode of Horizon features Immanuel Velikovsky and his theories about the solar system.
Horizon examines the doctrines and military strategies of the rival alliances of NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries.
Horizon looks into the problem of deafness in Britain.
A jewel robbery, a hit-and-run, and the Case of the Skeleton in the Sand Dunes illustrate the work of forensic scientists and the police they assist. How do they discover the characteristics of an ind…
How easy is it to get sterilized? Should there be abortion on demand? Do we need a free contraceptive service? Our average family size is 2.5. To avoid a social and population crisis it needs to be 2.…
In this documentary by Horizon, we look at chemical warfare and the associated environmental problems that have given science a bad name.
Horizon explores how to make the future livable and prevent the effects of urban sprawl.
Horizon explains acupuncture theories and examines its validity in modern medicine.
Horizon illustrates the Circadian Cycle of your body clock as it relates to physical and mental efficiency.
In this episode, Horizon investigates the chances of survival and chances of a normal life for babies who are born underweight.
This Horizon documentary shows the work of the Cambridge Coral Starfish Research Group off of Port Sudan in the Red Sea.
In this report, Horizon studies the problem of backache and investigates some remarkable new spine research.
Horizon covers Heathrow Airport in England and in particular, the work which is being done to make it safe.
Horizon looks at the phenomena of memory and some recent discoveries about it made by scientists.
Horizon investigates the various ways of dealing with the growing problem of garbage.
In the episode, Horizon investigates modern intensive farming methods.
Horizon takes a realistic look at the new ideas and technology threatening Britain's railway system.
In this Horizon documentary, it deals with the expansion of television in Britain and the USA, especially with the growth of cable television.
In this episode of Horizon, you will find that many people suffer chronic pain and yet others cannot feel anything.
This report by Horizon examines the work of Sir Alister Hardy who has set up a research unit to examine religious experience.
Horizon presents a portrait of Konrad Lorenz and a review of his career and personal interests.
This episode of Horizon takes a look at the medical and educational treatment of spastics in Britain.
Horizon presents a documentary on the developments in botany resulting in new flowers and the mass production of plants from single cells.
In this episode of Horizon, Prof. John Taylor of the London University looks at the effects of gravity and the forces it exerts on the universe.
Horizon investigates the plight of the Pygmies, on the verge of extinction as a racial group.
This Horizon documentary is a biography of the Danish nuclear physicist, Nils Bohr, and his efforts to internationally control atomic energy.
Horizon looks at the rise in the number of people who smoke and the real health risks.
In this report, Horizon investigates why airplanes crash and shows accident investigators at work analyzing a film of an actual crash.
This episode of Horizon documents the sources, uses, and properties of the element mercury and examines its role in modern society.
Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or worse? Is it possible to grow anything useful on large areas of moorland in this country? Diseases,…
Horizon reports on the inhabitants islands east of New Guinea who have evolved a system of intercommunication called the Kula.
This episode of Horizon explains how our body fights infections and cancers and brings us up-to-date on recent research in immunology.
This episode of Horizon is about various experiments on migratory birds and homing pigeons to try and discover how they navigate.
Horizon reports on the British Open University and how it operates.
Horizon investigates how Britain has hunted fish in the past and how improved fish catching techniques have severely reduced fish stocks.
This episode of Horizon is about the history of the bicycle and the possibility of it being able to ease the traffic problems in Britain.
In this episode, Horizon looks at connections between crime and poor housing design in the USA.
Horizon investigates reports of abuse of the Colorado river in the USA.
Horizon examines the British Hudson Institute's methods and predictions for the future of economics.
In this Horizon episode, we look at attempts by scientists to solve the energy crisis of future by building nuclear fusion reactors.
In this report, Prof. John Maynard Smith looks back at some of the subjects Horizon has presented since 1964.
Horizon looks back at the discovery and the development of anesthesia.
This Horizon episode is about the search for quarks, thought to be the substance of which electrons, protons, and neutrons are made of.
Horizon investigates captive animal breeding to prevent extinction of animal species in the wild.
Horizon reports on bridges in Britain...how safe are they?
Documentary about the origins of life which attempts to find out what happened in the one billion years before fossil evidence begins.
Horizon investigates the subject of sleep in Britain and the USA.
In this episode of Horizon, you learn about transferring the basis of modern industry production from human skills to computer programmed machines.
In this report, Horizon presents the state of hill farming in Wales.
This documentary of Horizon reports on the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by Dr. Francis Crick and Prof. James Watson.
In this episode, Horizon reports on the rising number of imigrant doctors working in the National Health System of Britain.
Horizon explores the technological and economic reasons for the mining revival in Britain.
Horizon reports on the beef crisis and rising prices.
Horizon brings you a report by Tom Harrison on anti-nazi propaganda in Britain during World War II.
This episode of Horizon investigates the role that hormones play in the stages of mammalian sexual development.
Horizon investigates some of the risks and problems involved in bringing oil from the North Sea ashore.
This report by Horizon explores how far people are prepared to suppress their own moral scruples in the face of necessity to obey authority.
Horizons reviews the scientific work of Americans in the field of research in communication with animals.
Horizon presents Dr. Schumacher's theory that use of modern technology could make the working week a creative experience.
Sixty years ago a Dutch scientist discovered a phenomenon that overturned the electrical rule book. By cooling certain metals to incredibly low temperatures he found they could continue to carry an el…
This story by Horizon reconstructs the true life story of Joey Deacon.
Horizon investigates the developments and research in forestry which may now help to overcome shortage of timber.
This documentary by Horizon reports on the development of cinematographic special effects from 1890's to date.
Horizon presents a dramatized documentary on the rise to power of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, a young Ukrainian agriculturalist.
This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled asbestos dust at Acre Mill, Yorkshire, England.
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Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothers. The practice has become increasingly widespread in recent years, and this film asks if induction…
This episode of Horizon examines the problems of ship safety in the English Channel.
Horizon investigates the symptoms of menopause and the various degrees in which it occurs.
This episode of Horizon shows the peril to man of the ever increasing dog population in the western world.
By the end of 1974, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter had all been visited by spacecraft. For the first time scientists saw in sharp detail the continents, mountains, valleys and volcanoes of other wor…
This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into the origins and history of the Australian Aborigines.
This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and the dangers it could mean for the future.
Horizon investigates the life and work of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Horizon explores the effect of fibre in diet on the diseases of western world.
Horizon presents an investigation into the effects on health of lead in the urban atmosphere.
This is a Horizon report on the building of the British military deterrent from the first decision to make it in 1941 until the present state of lethargy.
This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford in Britain.
This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canada.
Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an ideal living and working environment.
Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effect in every society.
This report by Horizon brings you scientists that are using Antarctica as a giant natural lab to study who has polluted Earth most; man or nature.
Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th century.
Horizon reports on the history of superconductivity, from discovery, to the present.
In this documentary, Horizon reports on the reading process; how it works for the fluent, and how it should be taught.
This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean Sea.
In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigated.
This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
Horizon takes a look at the history of cannabis and the research on the effects of smoking marijuana.
This is a report by Horizon on Transcendental Meditation, or TM, brought to the West by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
This documentary by Horizon is about the Trobriand islanders, whose culture is based on the Kula, a communication system of giving and receiving.
Horizon investigates heart transplant research and techniques perfected and currently used by Dr. Norman Shumway in Britain.
This episode of Horizon is about symbiosis - the close association between two or more species for their mutual benefit.
Horizon reports on the country of Tanzania, a country that spends only one dollar per person on health services, and more than half of all children born there die before the age of five.
This episode of Horizon explores what actually happens inside our bodies using new optical techniques.
Horizon examines the projected expansion of the coal mining industry.
In this episode of Horizon, we look at the need for confidence in the doctor to patient relationship.
Horizon investigates the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
Horizon traces back the origins and development of the pre-Incan Chimu civilization of Peru.
This documentary by Horizon takes a look at the shark, the supreme predator of the sea.
Horizon reports on enzymes and the way they are being put on work in the industry and medicine fields.
This is a Horizon reconstruction of the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin who was arrested after performing an abortion in 1973.
This Horizon reports is about Margaret Mead, who at age 74, is one of America's most influential social scientists.
Horizon investigates the developments in and the treatment of schizophrenia.
This report by Horizon investigates the aggressive and oppressive history of the Mescalero and Chiricuhua Apache Indians of New Mexico in the USA.
This Horizon documentary investigates the ways that the blind and partially blind are aided.
Horizon explores the comparative research study into progressive versus formal primary school teaching in the UK.
This episode of Horizon delves in the research into the causes for, and the methods of eradicating 'cot deaths' in Britain.
Horizon looks at food production in Peru today.
This is a Horizon documentary on how a widow faces the last day of her husband's life and the story of three other people who know they only have a short time to live.
Horizon investigates a local authority residential home in Wandsworth, Britain, for emotionally disturbed children.
In the episode, Horizon explores the history of man's understanding of the sun's structure and observations in recent years.
Horizon looks at today's precision guided weapons.
Horizon makes an investigation into claims by a group of scientists who theorize that dinosaurs were not actaully cold-blooded reptiles, but hot-blooded, like mammals.
This is an investigative report by Horizon that shows how the Equity Funding Corp. of America produced two billion dollars worth of phoney insurance.
This Horizon documentary explores animal behavior. Animals do not act for the good of their own species, rather for the preservation of their own genes.
This episode of Horizon is about infertility and the state of British scientific research in this area.
Horizon reports on Pacific Ocean fishermen who are famous for their extraordinary fishing skills. They catch fish with a kite and a tassel of spiders webs.
This is a Horizon documentary about six people who have each lost someone very close, as they describe their progress through grief.
Horizon looks at new developments in computer technology that have made mass surveillance possible, and also its political misuse.
This Horizon episode is about the actual King Arthur's Round Table, which hangs in the Hall of Winchester Castle, Hants, Britain.
Horizon documents the life of crocodiles and alligators, and their breeding and exploitation.
Horizon traces the history of the oral contraceptive pill through the last 60 years as told by its pioneers.
Horizon looks at how recent excavations in Africa have changed the accepted ideas of man's origins and age.
Horizon investigates Sociobiology, which is a study of human social behaviour based on zoological research into animal behaviour.
In this episode, Horizon explores how animal experiments are carried out in Britain.
Horizon presents a story that depicts an astonishingly harsh way of life of the Netsilik Eskimos whose whole life is based on seal hunting.
This story by Horizon traces the efforts of astronomers and scientists through history to prove the existence of life on Mars.
Horizon looks at an ecological study of the Ythan estuary in Scotland.
In this episode, Horizon investigates research into solar energy in the USA, Japan, and the UK.
Horizon explores the debate on human genetic engineering.
BBC television documentary which explores, using live-action dramatisation, the life's work of Sir Isaac Newton, emphasising his sources of inspiration.
In this episode, Horizon looks at how, despite the high costs of the National Health System of Britain, more money doesn't mean better health.
This Horizon report is about Prof. Hubert Montagner and his study of non-verbal communication in young children, along with his findings.
Horizon makes an investigation into plant biology.
This is a report by Horizon on the successful clean-up of the River Thames in Britain.
This Horizon episode reports on research by scientists into identifying a system of markers, such as tissue types on blood cells, which indicate the human being's vulnerability to a whole range of dis…
Horizon presents a profile on one of the UK's leading pathologists, Keith Simpson.
This Horizon episode examines the growing British problem of attempted suicide by an overdose of drugs.
Horizon presents evidence that links the drought cycle with the number of magnetically-hyperactive sunspots.
Horizon presents the story of how the river Rhine has defended itself against progress.
Horizon presents a report on the prize offered to the first person who could fly a prescribed figure of eight course.
This episode of Horizon is a dramatized reconstruction of breakdown of Carl Gustav Jung on the road to insanity.
Horizon explores a new science-based revolution in the production of wine.
Horizon investigates how biologists and engineers are pooling their ideas to understand how nature's machines work.
In this episode, Horizon examines the need for an objective approach to land management in Britain.
Horizon explores community and residential services available to the elderly in South Hampton, England.
Horizon presents a report on zero gravity and the effects of weightlessness in spacecraft on humans.
Develops the theory that four and a half thousand million years ago the earth was formed thanks to the explosion of a huge star which provided the rocks, the minerals and the radioactivity from which …
Horizon reports on last three attempts to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth.
Horizon presents a documentary on the development of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation device, or more commonly know as the Laser.
Horizon investigates the reasons for poverty in Britain today, now with seven million on at the poverty line.
About the applications and implications for the future, particularly the effects on the labour market, of microprocessors.
In this episode, Horizon explores the after effects of a stroke when there is a sudden stoppage of blood to the human brain.
Horizon investigates the race to the moon between the USA and Russia and questions the motives behind the space race.
This episode of Horizon is about the tsetse fly which rules most of Africa and why much of the fertile land can't in Africa can't be used because of the dangerous insect.
Horizon explores the history of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.
In this episode, Horizon explains some of the research in multiple sclerosis and how the lives of MS sufferers are affected.
Horizon presents a brief history of the French railways and the policy behind their future direction.
This documentary by Horizon is about six school children taking 'O' levels exams and inter science in Britain.
Horizon looks at the implications of exploiting Manganese nodules which are scattered over the seabed.
Horizon investigates the composition and structure of the membrane that surround individual cells.
In this documentary, Horizon examines all sides of the Canadian Harpseal hunt issue and asks if it is really necessary.
Horizon explores an experimental medical school in Israel where students are trained primarily to care for people.
Horizon explores the years of research that have enabled divers to go to greater and greater ocean depth.
In this story, Horizon takes a look at the world's leading hibernation research projects.
In this episode, Horizon examines the current developments in electrotherapy.
Horizon takes a look at the changing behaviour of individual animals in a herd of red deer on the Isle of Rhum.
Horizon presents an investigation into the potential and problems of using hydrogen as an alternative to existing fuels.
In this program, Horizon looks at the effort and money spent on the horse to produce the perfect specimen.
Horizon follows the discovery of a chemical in the brain which has morphine-like properties.
Horizon presents the history and research into the uses of sugar.
In this documentary by Horizon, you are shown a revolution in archaeological dating has shown that metal technology was invented in Europe.
Horizon explores the current state of research into the development of artificial replacements for various parts of the body.
Horizon reports about the attempts to bring about cooperation between the Mediterranean countries to combat pollution of their seas.
In this episode, Horizon looks at Britain's methods and plans for nuclear waste management and disposal of the fuel elements.
Horizon presents a documentary that shows how part of the Amazon river area around the Rio Jari was developed with rice and forestry.
This is a Horizon documentary about Liam Hudson, noted psychologist at Brunel University as he challenges modern psychologists.
Horizon examines the work of Dr. Lennart Nilsson who has filmed the complete arterial system of the human body.
This episode of Horizon looks at the recent scientific research into how humans become male or female.
This Horizon documentary is about the increasing use of robots in industry, and the robot's abilities and weaknesses.
Horizon explores the effect of the Mexican oil boom on the country itself and world energy situation.
Horizon investigates the environmental protection program going on in the state of Oregon in the USA. Oregon is the first state to clean up it's environment.
In this episode, Horizon reports on the need to consider more aerodynamic designs for cars to improve fuel economy.
Horizon presents a report on the research into diabetes to determine its causes, controlling measures, and the prevention of complications.
Horizon takes a trip down the Jonglei Canal which is under construction in Sudan and reports on the changes the new canal will bring to the country, and the rest of the world.
This Horizon documentary describes the complete history and design of motorcycles which have significantly evolved over the past 80 years.
This report by Horizon is about current research into the physical and psychological effects of touch, and the effects of touch deprivation.
Horizon investigates how the British landscape is changing its appearance with native trees being replaced by imported species.
Horizon examines the development of the relatively new science of x-ray astronomy.
This Horizon episode is all about Uranium; its history, the use of uranium for nuclear energy, the dangers of uranium, and the scarcity of the mineral.
Horizon explores current research into the causes and cure for obesity.
In this episode by Horizon, G. R. Taylor presents his personal view of science based on previous Horizon episode clips from the 1970's.
Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.
This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.
Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.
Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.
In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.
Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.
A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.
Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.
Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.
Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.
In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.
This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian…
Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.
Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.
In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.
Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the…
Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.
Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant fro…
This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space de…
Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won t…
Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the …
Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.
Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, d…
Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also shows how snake venom could be used in the treatment of many human ailments.
An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebral palsy sufferer without the power of speech. At the Artific…
Documentary which looks at the wildlife of Pleasant Bay in New England marshland s of the Eastern USA, and their habitat.
Horizon explores what might happen when fossil fuel sources are depleted.
Horizon documents how every one of us is owned and operated by other individuals; by hordes of hidden organisms.
Documentary on the first recorded instance of genetic engineering being carried out on a human, when in 1980, Dr. Martin Cline from Los Angeles operated on a 21 year old Israeli girl in Jerusalem to r…
Documentary which looks at the way in which disease in the world fights back against modern scientific methods of controlling it, looking at the example of the eradication of Malaria from Sri Lanka, a…
An examination of the use of Depo-Provera in the Third World. The contraceptive is injected and prevents pregnancy for three months, but it is banned in the U.S. because of the risk of cancer. Looks a…
Documentary which looks at the psychological effects of kidnapping and imprisonment on the victims,based on the psychological characteristics shown by former concentration camp victims 30 years after …
Examines the prospects for Japanese economic supremacy in the 1990s and asks whether Japan will be able to compete in the development of new technologies or whether it will continue to look to the Wes…
Documentary which looks at the boom in private medicine in GB and at the effects of this on the National Health Service in the country.
Documentary which looks at the outbreak of a new disease in Spain in 1981 which has affected 17,000 people, killing 300, and the confusion which remains as to its causes. Although adulterated olive oi…
Documentary which shows the human reproductive cycle from conception to birth, through the use of microscopic cameras within the human body.
Documentary which looks at the phenomenon of the Unidentified Flying Object and the possible explanations behind their sighting and observation by mankind.
Documentary about acid rain. The effects of various forms of pollution caused by processes of everyday life, including the contamination of rain by the burning of coal and oil. Written by Jeremy Taylo…
A look at current research into the causes and effects of divorce in the Western world.
Documentary which looks at the great advances in the performance of ante-natal operations on the human foetus and the implications of these technical facilities for patient and health services and all…
Oxford moral philosopher Jonathan Glover introduces some of the new developments in genetic engineering, looks at the future possibilities of human genetic engineering and outlines the ethical questio…
An informal portrait of Prof. Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London, and in Kent. He discusses what makes a good surgeon; how he teaches his students to talk to their future patients; and how m…
Traces the evolution of the helicopter, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Also examines the latest research within the industry, and, with the aid of graphics, produces a glimpse…
Documentary on the discussions at the second UN Environment Conference,in London in 1982,illustrating the points made in the debates on the possible future of the planet.
Documentary about the little known Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed the discoveries of Edison and Marconi. Some of his most specta…
Horizon investigates if Britain should build a United States designed nuclear power station that uses a pressurized water reactor at its core.
Horizon presents a report by Dr. Alison Jolly who discusses the country of Madagascar, just off of the west coast of Africa. Madagascar's ecology and conservation programs are in conflict with most th…
Horizon brings you a report about the discovery of two new, and unimaginably short-lived, subatomic particles called "W" and "Z".
Horizon examines some of the effects that moderate amounts of alcohol can have on the body.
In the Horizon documentary, we look new ways of using computers in classroom and to what effect computers in our schools will have in future.
Horizon investigates the way girls and boys were taught science and related subjects at schools.
Horizon reports on the state of scientific research in Britain and the past blunders of the National Research Development Council.
In this Horizon documentary, we look back at the event surrounding the near extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) in the 1880's.
The Horizon episode is about the Carsington Aqueduct Scheme in Derbyshire, England, and the massive excavation problems encountered during construction.
Horizon presents a look at the current research into artificial computer intelligence.
Horizon looks at the mental problem of schizophrenia and how madness is medically diagnosed.
In this episode, Horizon investigates the nuclear accident which took place in the United States at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant during March 1979.
In this report, Horizon looks at the spread of the AIDS virus in the United States and their search for the cause and cure of the deadly disease.
n this documentary, Horizon investigates the power of the mind for psychic phenomena; telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.
Horizon investigates the current research into development and use of an artificial heart.
This report by Horizon examines the experiments of Joseph Priestly on blood and oxygen in photosynthesis.
This episode of Horizon features Prof. Stephen Hawking and how he copes with his severe disability, his scientific career, and his relationship with his students.
Horizon presents a discussion on the use of animals for experiments.
Looks at different ways of teaching a foreign language and contrasts them with the way babies and young children pick up their native language, without formal teaching.
Horizon examines how the government of China presents the "one child per family" population policy to the people.
Horizon investigates today's research into earthquakes and the usefulness of the findings.
Horizon presents this documentary on how Britain deals with its mentally ill criminal offenders.
In this report, Horizon outlines the latest research into cancer with specific reference to oncogenes.
Horizon follows group of men and women going through basic training in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) methods at the Academy in the United States.
Sir Cyril Burt died in 1971, the most eminent psychologist of his age. Within two years the most bitter and disturbing scientific controversy since Piltdown Man saw Burt accused of lifelong faking and…
Horizon looks at the research advances in physics and technology of microelectronics.
This episode of Horizon looks at the role of scientists in agriculture throughout the Third World countries.
Horizon examines the various ways of committing computer fraud and at the efforts to prevent it and preserve our privacy.
In this documentary, Horizon examines the work at an archaeological project in the Cusichaca Valley, Peru.
Horizon presents this report on parasites, their life styles, and the diseases they cause in Third World countries.
Horizon investigates the life for various civilizations along the river Waveney in east Angola.
Horizon presents a report on current research and trends in facial reconstructive surgery.
In this documentary, Horizon reconstructs a therapy session where a man imprisoned for incest meets his family for first time in two and one half years.
Horizon investigates the linguistic potential of non-human species.
In the documentary, Horizon reports on the life of slime moulds and how they provides clues to cell differentiation.
Horizon presents the first of a two-part documentary about Kenneth Bianchi, the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler, who was convicted of the murder of 12 women even though his defence was that he had no m…
Horizon presents the second part of a two-part documentary about Kenneth Bianchi, the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler, who was convicted of the murder of 12 women even though his defence was that he ha…
Horizon reports on new medical techniques to diagnose the inherited diseases; sickle cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis.
Horizon investigates the military bias of British scientific industries and the possible consequences if the bias continues.
Horizon explores the behavioural patterns of sheep, cows, chickens, and pigs under both natural and intensive farming conditions.
Horizon reports on the decline in the amount of gambling leading to a severe reductions in money to fund the scientific research in Britain.
Horizon documents the current medical research into finding new ways of repairing damage to the brain and the central nervous system.
Horizon examines the concept and implications of a global village in Third World countries.
In this documentary, Horizon spends a week with a victim of Parkinson's disease and how he has to use considerable muscular effort in order to cope with day-to-day life.
Horizon attempts to explain some of the theories proposed by pure mathematicians over the ages.
Horizon presents a chronological history of the development of the racing car during the 15 years prior to World War II.
Documentary about colour perception based on the theories of Dr. Edwin Land, which oppose the long-held three-receptor theory of colour vision
Horizon takes a look at consultant psychiatrists.
Horizon looks at the way modern archaeologists extract information from a site dig.
This Horizon episode is about a hospital in the African country of Kenya where the medical staff tells of a new approach to health care among the Pokot tribe.
In this episode, Horizon explores the characteristics of left-handed people.
Horizon examines new military technology which will come to dominate the battlefields of the future.
This episode of Horizon is about the controversial policy in African nation of Zimbabwe of encouraging villagers to allow wild animals back onto their land.
This documentary by Horizon attempts to explain the advances in physics in the search for the ultimate equation that explains the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else in existence.
Horizon brings you a report by Robert Symes who offers ten golden guidelines on how to be a successful inventor.
This is a Horizon follow-up report on the careers of seven British teenagers studying Science 'O' levels back in 1978.
This episode of Horizon looks at how the world's best special effects technicians create some of Hollywood's most spectacular film scenes.
Horizon investigates how food allergy has developed from the 1950's to the present.
Horizon examines a hypothesis that life itself manipulates the planet to enhance it's own survival.
This Horizon documentary examines the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which has detected evidence of planetary systems around distant stars.
Horizon reports on the current medical treatment of Malaria and Leukemia.
Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety.
Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.
This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.
Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.
Horizon explores the myth about the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.
In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?
Horizon investigates the truths of science and it's theories.
Horizon explores at the latest discoveries about just where modern man came from.
This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.
Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.
Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.
Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.
In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.
In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of…
This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.
Horizon researches how we acquire mathematical abilities in the first place.
This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.
Horizon presents a simple, but effective, cure for diarrea in young children; sugar and salt.
In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.
Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.
This is the first part of a two-part series on battered children.
This is the second part of a two-part series on battered children.
In a unique project, Horizon follows a group of medical students into the next century.
Report on research into biological body clocks, which can effect emotional and physical health and well-being.
Report on how forensic scientists ae identifying individual victims amongst the people murdered by Argentina's military juntas, by examination and genetic testing of their remains.
In this interview by Horizon, zoologist Richard Dawkins investigates an attack on evolution by scientific creationists, based on the book of the same name by the famous zoologist.
Astronauts and space shuttle designers talk about the risks of space flight, in the light of the space shuttle disaster of January 1986.
Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
Two part documentary on psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and his work with emotionally disturbed children.
Report on exploration into releasing energy sources which came from outer space during the formation of the earth, 4,500 million years ago, and have lain dormant under the earth's crust. In Sweden a f…
Documentary on the Osprey in north east America, where its natural habitat was being damaged by the use of DDT, but after some conservation work the Osprey is returning to the area.
Report on the development of the AIDS virus, and current research into vaccines to combat the disease.
Documentary on the increasing pressure put on the British police resulting in stress and psychological disorders, and also on the work of Dr. Douglas Duckworth, a psychologist at Leeds University who …
Engineer Henry Petroski explains why engineering can never be an exact science and looks at examples of engineering failures.
Report on the research into volcanoes by British scientists Professor Geoff Brow n and Dr. Hazel Rymer, who have developed a technique of exploring the magma chambers of volcanoes and predicting when …
Report on two sufferers of visual agnosia. The condition affects their ability to impose order on the visual world, even though they are not blind, but it does reveal a great deal about normal percept…
Report on the different tests done on pregnant women to detect abnormalities in the foetus, with investigation of why these tests are not available in all pregnancies.
Report on the safety of UK nuclear power stations, following the accident at Chernobyl in the USSR in 1986. The programme focuses on the nuclear installation at Hartlepool on Teeside, which has the sm…
James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, lectures on the mating habits of animals and humans.
Discussion of the Anthropic Principle, a scientific theory for man's place in th e Universe.
Report on the need for improved safety features on airplanes in particular the desirability of smoke hoods, plus an interview with a survivor of the 1985 Manchester aircrash.
Report on research into rheumatoid arthritis.
Report on the future and commercial benefit of research into astronomy conducted by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and other scientific institutions in Great Britain.
Report on the evolution of laser light technology for communication in the 21st century, with a dramatised account of the effect of the technology on our daily lives.
Janice Blenkharn's mother died of Huntington's Chorea, which any child of a victim has a 50-50 chance of inheriting. Janice is faced with the choice of having a test, developed after research in South…
This episode of Horizon looks at a new approach that holds hope for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
Horizon documents the first sighting of a star in supernova at its initial stages. The study of the spacial event provides fascinating insight into the life of our own universe.
In the report by Horizon, they looks at manic depression and how is now known that it has a strong genetic component.
This episode of the Horizon explores the Panama Canal, now a billion dollar commercial sea crossroad between continents. The future of the canal is in danger because of damage to rain forests.
Horizon investigates how those who are born into a working class family are at greater risk of dying early than if born a child of the professional classes.
This documentary report by Horizon examines the devastating effects of the Greenhouse Effect (earth's temperature rising) and how man is causing it.
This is a Horizon report on Britain's air traffic control capabilities and the use of outdated and unreliable equipment.
Explores the limits of digital computers and artificial intelligence. Includes the views of John Searle, a philosopher at the University of California who refutes the claims for 'thinking' machines.
Horizon looks at the experimental treatment of four cancer patients in the USA who have volunteered to try the LAK/Interleuken 2 treatment.
This is part one of a two-part series by Horizon reporting on a military exercise code named Purple Warrior which is designed to test lessons learned during the Falklands war.
This is part two of a two-part series by Horizon reporting on a military exercise code named Purple Warrior which is designed to test lessons learned during the Falklands war.
Horizon looks at the progress of two heart disease patients at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in Britain.
This is part one of a two-part Horizon series about the mystery of Easter Island, the stone statues, and the civilization that erected them.
This is part two of a two-part Horizon series about the mystery of Easter Island, the stone statues, and the civilization that erected them.
Horizon presents part one of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, we look at the ordeal of an interview faced by two potential students applying to St. Mary's M…
Horizon presents part two of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, we examine the first two years of education at St. Mary's Medical School and at the exams that…
Horizon presents part three of a three-part series on the education of doctors in Britain. In this episode, a group of medical students are followed from the beginning of their third year of medical e…
Horizon investigates if changes in lifestyle could reduce the risks of cancer.
In this documentary, Horizon explores how to solve murder cases with the help of new technology.
Horizon interviews the scientist and Nobel prize winner, Peter Medawar.
This report by Horizon covers how the electronic revolution in television news affects the way it is gathered, edited, and presented.
Horizon investigates the use of psychological techniques in job recruitment and career development.
This Horizon episode presents the breakthroughs in superconductivity research in several countries.
Horizon brings you a report on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which is a neurological disease that has been puzzling doctors for more than 30 years.
Richard Feynman was not only an iconoclastic and influential theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate but also an explorer at heart. Feynman through video recordings and comments from his friend and d…
Horizon looks again at the Human Genome Project which aims to decipher or sequence all genes.
Horizon reports on the abnormally high incidence of and the early onset of diseases such as senile dementia and Parkinson's disease on the island of Guam in the Pacific. Scientists have now linked the…
In this episode, Horizon presents evidence that even diving in relatively shallow waters can cause serious long term damage to the brain and spinal cord.
This documentary by Horizon demonstrates how smart Weapons use computers to destroy targets, that until now, were only able to be threatened by nuclear weapons.
Horizon looks at the damaging effects of pollution and tourism on the Swiss Alps in Europe.
Horizon answers the question: What are the alternatives for the elderly in Britain who can't live at home, or in a rest home or nursing home, or part of a sheltered accommodation?
Horizon brings you an interview with Prof. Eric Laithwaite who presents an engineer's personal view of nature and how new inventions already exist in nature.
In this episode, Horizon presents an investigation into the state of medical research in neurological disorders and the issues with its funding in Britain.
This documentary by Horizon investigates new technology applied to music.
Horizon covers the story of the Nottingham psychiatrists who study the human race to see who is mostly likely to develop schizophrenia.
This Horizon report covers the Tasaday, a remote Philippine tribe apparently living in the stone age, who are now seen as a hoax. How did they do it?
Horizon explores three types of alternative medicine; homoeopathy, acupuncture, and diagnosing food allergies by testing your toes.
Horizon presents a biography of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who lived from 1889 to 1951.
This is a Horizon documentary about an investigation into the so-called "sick building syndrome" where occupants contract illnesses because of the environment within the building.
How valid have been Horizon's criticisms of scientific orthodoxy and to what effect have the programs had?
Horizon investigates how many of the tragedies on our roads in Britain could be avoided by the introduction of technical and legislative changes.
Horizon follows J. Hooper, a diabetic, as she explores various aspects of biosensor technology.
Horizon presents a profile of noted inventor Clive Sinclair with his family and colleagues reminiscing and analysing his successes and failures.
In this story, Horizon explores how the destructive patterns of child abuse and depression can be broken by concentrating on the mothers of young children.
In this Horizon episode, we look at the effects on the climate from volcanic eruptions.
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.
Horizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.
Horizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.
In this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.
This report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.
Horizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.
Horizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms from the moment of conception.
Horizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.
Horizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.
Horizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.
This story by Horizon investigates cold fusion
Horizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.
In this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.
What can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future based on the society structure of ants and bees.
This Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, and linking up all businesses, information, and aspects of li…
Horizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest land in just minutes.
This episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.
Horizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.
Horizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independent existence, initially confined to computers and telephone…
Horizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to the development of a cure for the AIDS virus.
Documentary considering the nature of sudden death, the effects of coronary heart disease and the part they play.
This Horizon episode tells the story of the top secret experiments carried out to test the effects of mustard gas.
Horizon investigates the case against passive smoking and reveals new evidence of its danger.
Horizon reports on the new arms verification industry emerging due to the new arms control treaties.
Horizon follows astronomer's efforts to rescue the Hubble space telescope and restore its original planned performance.
Looks at the work of Earthwatch, and some of the many people who spend their holidays contributing to learning about the planet by helping on prehistoric digs, recording fish noises, tracking rodents,…
This Horizon documentary presents the US auto industry's response to clean-up the air in Los Angeles, California by the year 2007.
This episode of Horizon examines 20 years of research which has led to a new theory on how the earth's crust was made.
Looks at the phenomenon of the outbreaks of a lethal kidney disease amongst groups of people scattered around an area of the Balkans, covering Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, over the past 30 years.…
This Horizon interview presents Dr. Ulysses Seal who believes the "frozen zoo" concept is the best way to save vanishing species for the future generations.
This Horizon episode considers the pros and cons of "ecotourism" and the effects of tourism on the environment. The coral reefs of areas of Belize are suffering already from the effects tourists comin…
This episode of Horizon explores the Natural History Museum and its philosophy, both past and present. We look at some of the recent innovations that have been introduced in the past few years. The re…
Horizon examines the problems and cartography involved in mapping mountains such as Mount Everest. They follow the history of of mapping from those surveys conducted by mountaineering expeditions and …
Horizon looks at archaeologist's new theories surrounding the population of the New World over 11,000 years ago
Documentary following the clean-up operation at Chernobyl and the elite team of Soviet scientists working in areas of radiation that would be considered lethal in the West, whilst they hunt for missin…
Horizon presents a documentary on how virtual reality can make humans feel as if they are present in the computer simulated artificial world. What is the future of all this powerful, seductive technol…
In this report, Horizon follows a group of eminent scientists who believe we have become too complacent about infectious diseases.
Horizon explores the Camelford disaster, in which aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to drinking water in Cornwall in 1988.
Several astronomers and scientists explore the concepts of "hot/cold dark space" and whether or not the "Big Bang" theory is actually correct, as well as considering the structures of galaxies.
This story by Horizon looks at the expanding and controversial area of "smart drugs".
In this Horizon episode, we look at the problems facing the Carl Zeiss optics company of Jena and other companies in the scientific sector of the former Eastern block countries. Following the reunific…
Horizon examines the social and scientific issues around the cholesterol debate.
Considers some of the different theories surrounding the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur, and other members of the same family, and shows how calculations about size, speed, weight, etc. are made from skel…
Horizon presents a new study that has highlighted the case of breast cancer.
Horizon examines the advantages and disadvantages of biological pest control.
About the original discovery in 1985 of a third form of solid carbon, named Buckminsterfullerene after the architect who invented geodesic domes. The two scientists who discovered the material glimpse…
Horizon explores the ecological track record of the North American Indians.
In this episode, Horizon look at attempts to persuade major respected organizations to do controlled trials on a synthetic malaria vaccine.
Horizon follows five teams of scientists on the island of Mauna Kea in Hawaii as they wait for a solar eclipse.
Horizon investigates how in 1939, the Nazis led the race for the atomic bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of a victory over the allies?
This episode of Horizon looks at Britain's science spending and how it is falling behind it's competitors.
Horizon presents the life and work of mathematician Dr. Alan Turing.
This episode of Horizon is about how nuclear fusion has been heralded as the power of the future with the promise of clean affordable energy.
Horizon presents a story about what a women eats before and during pregnancy can determine the diseases her children may suffer from later in their life.
Horizon explores the development of languages all over the world and attempts to reconstruct the first spoken words.
In this report, Horizon presents that scientific observations have shown that the landscape is constantly moving.
Horizon reports on the investigation into a well-preserved human corpse found frozen in an Alpine glacier.
Horizon investigates the claims by rival American and French scientists as to who first discovered the HIV virus.
In this story, Horizon presents an investigation into the research to make livestock and poultry grow bigger and stronger.
Horizon brings you this report to explain when animal communities exceed carrying capacities of their environments, they crash spectacularly. Will this also happen to humans?
Horizon presents the current evidence of a massive sporting fraud in the former Eastern Germany that has now been uncovered. The evidence shows that the East German Olympic success through the 1980's …
This Horizon program looks at the stereotyped image of the scientist.
Horizons presents a report on a daring Swedish operation that transplants foetal tissue into the brains of Parkinson's disease sufferers.
Horizon investigates the current benefits and disadvantages of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
This Horizon episode is about the new and terrible threat from tuberculosis which kills more people than any other infection.
This is the first part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.
This is the second part of a two-part Horizon series presenting a portrait of Richard Feynman, the American Nobel Prize winning physicist.
This Horizon episode attempts to answer the question if it will be possible to 'terraform' Mars by creating a new atmosphere, and then adding water and plants to make the planet habitable.
Horizon investigates how market research, opinion polls, TV ratings, and consumer surveys have got it disastrously wrong. Commercial decisions depend increasingly on this information, but just how goo…
This Horizon documentary looks at how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids without the use of the wheel, ramps, or levers.
This documentary by Horizon looks at how the Hubble space telescope is uncovering evidence of black holes in our distant galaxies.
This is a Horizon update to the story of the Stone Age man found frozen in an Alpine glacier in 1991.
Horizon shows how American scientists struggled to fulfil the dreams which challenged fundamental scientific laws.
In this episode, Horizon examines the latest scientific evidence about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Horizon presents the story of a robot named Dante, who goes into an active volcano in Antarctica to find out if volcanoes contribute to the ozone hole in our atmosphere.
Follows a team of archaeologists led by Michael Novacek as they try to retrace the steps of an expedition launched by the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920's. The original expedition s…
Horizon reports on scientists who are planning smart aircraft wings and smart buildings that can sense earthquakes.
In this episode, Horizon examines Asthma, the illness that is the most common condition of the developed world.
Horizon looks at causes of violence and asks psychologists to interview men and boys with a record of violence.
In this story, Horizon explores the endless stream of digital information available on demand to the public, but do we need, or even want it?
Horizon describes how researchers discovered that a lethal gas, called nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of our bodies.
This documentary by Horizon looks back into the 1980's where the work of pioneer researchers trying to determine if chimpanzees could understand language was attacked as charlatanism. Now the public o…
Horizon investigates how life began on Earth. Did it evolve on land surfaces on Earth, in the sea, or in space?
Horizon brings you the international campaign to frame the laws of war by limiting the design and use of weapons aimed at "soft targets".
This Horizon documentary explores theories about the reasons for the extinction of mammoths including those which survived on the Island of Wrangel.
This is a Horizon episode that attempts to answer the question, "What is a mind?" and how does your brain create it? Gerald Edelman thinks he has the answer.
Horizon brings you the story about a 13 year old girl who had lived most of her life tied up in the back room of her parent's house since the time she was born.
In this report by Horizon, we look at a type of cancer which cured itself. The cancer cells were killing themselves and finding out why may revolutionize future cancer treatment.
Horizon reports on a team investigating the mysterious disappearance of an airliner in 1992 that was flying over the Panamanian jungle.
In this documentary, Horizon tries to answer the question if "Star Wars" technology could be used to destroy meteors big enough to threaten life on earth.
This Horizon episode follows the rescue and repair mission carried out by the shuttle astronauts on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Horizon explores scientific discoveries made in extraordinary ways.
Horizon examines the continuing, bitter controversy over the claim that nuclear fusion has been produced in a test tube.
In this episode, Horizon presents Professor Sir Walter Bodmer who searches for a new history of Britain, one that is written in their genes.
This episode of Horizon investigates the flooding of the Mississippi river in the USA and a massive flood in Bangladesh.
Horizon explores how the demands of a 24-hour culture pushes people too far and the many accidents caused by fatigue.
This Horizon documentary investigates newly discovered documents in Moscow from 1945 about German concentration camps.
Horizon reports on a new discovery where stomach ulcers caused by Bacterium Helicobacter Pylori are treatable with antibiotics.
Horizon investigates how mankind is now polluting the world's oceans with extreme noise caused by many sources such explosions and super tankers.
Horizon explores the creative process that caused ripples in the universe after the "Big Bang". Three teams of scientists attempt practical experiments to test abstract theories of cosmology.
Horizon presents a documentary on the Partula, a Polynesian tree snail.
Horizon investigates some alleged reports of alien abductions.
Horizon presents a documentary on Synaesthesia which is an unusual disorder of perception in which barriers between the senses dissolve.
Horizon brings you Reports from Europe, America, and Australia on how wine making differs and asks whether the traditional and troubled European wine industry will have to change its methods to compet…
Horizon presents a documentary on the ideas of Maureen Raymo's thesis on what triggered the last ice age.
Horizon follows an expedition from Russia's most advanced oceanographic exploration ship on a mission to clean-up and prevent radioactive contamination of the ocean by one of Russia's sunken nuclear s…
This episode of Horizon explores collections of the bones of thousands of Native American Indians in museums and universities across the United States.
Horizon presents the story of a pair of Siamese twins and the surgery they underwent to try and separate them.
Horizon investigates whether the human growth hormone is really the new wonder drug of the 21st century.
Horizon brings you the recent discovery of the real Venus as space probes, like the Magellan, shattered previous existing concerning its geology.
Horizon follows the a six month study of the world's first Environmental Impact Assessment team as they study the implications for the environment for major environmental events such as in Tanzania, w…
Horizon has uncovered disturbing evidence of the fabrication of scientific research results.
This Horizon episode is about the Earth as an icon.
Horizon presents this documentary on how national power is moving into the hands of those who control information.
This episode of Horizon reveals the results of research that could explain the major reasons for so many complications during pregnancy.
Horizon tries to answer the question, "Has the dream of earthquake prediction finally been shattered?"
Horizon explores the phenomenon often regarded as the first sign of madness - hearing voices. The report describes how the work of a leading Dutch professor of psychiatry, Marius Romme, has influenced…
Horizon presents a documentary that reveals the role played by deception in society and the effort by science to weed out the truth and the controversy over the accuracy of the polygraph test.
Horizon investigates the controversial research into some birth control contraceptives.
This episode of Horizon is about the future of micro-technology. In 1959, noted American physicist Richard Feynman offered a $1000 prize to anyone who could build an electronic motor no larger than ha…
Horizon presents an update on the story about asteroids colliding with Earth some day.
Horizon looks at an attempt to crack the mystery of smell by designing a molecule whose odour can be detected.
This report by Horizon brings you the latest research into the battle agains the AIDS virus.
Horizon presents the story of the search for an explanation of how rock can flow like water.
Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from a shin bone nearly 500,000 years old, discovered i…
Tells the story of mathematician Andrew Wiles who has made it his life's work to solve the puzzle of Fermat's last theorem that has baffled minds for three centuries.
Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.
Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian rainforest to assess missing species.
Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment against cystic fibrosis.
Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest shown by the US Military in the region which has led t…
Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
In this Horizon documentary, we look at the notion that each cell in our body is programmed to die. Understanding this concept has major implications for research into disease.
Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for life
In this episode of Horizon, which is a follow-up to the 1991 documentary, we follow a group of soviet scientists on a suicide mission as they search for the missing nuclear fuel inside the remains of …
Reports on the work by scientists Dr Keith Baverstock and Sir Dillwyn Williams to confirm that the outbreak of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus and the Ukraine was due to the Chernobyl disaster.
In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.
An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric rock in Antarctica earlier in 1996.
Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralyse…
An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.
Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah's Ark.
Horizon reports on the resurgence in research on psychedelic drugs in the 1990's.
In this documentary, Horizon investigates obesity in Britain, following a woman, Heather Osborne, who weighs 322 pounds. We watch her progress through a stomach stapling operation and explore reports …
Horizon follows the investigations into the origins of a 16th century shipwreck discovered off of the coast of the Channel Islands.
This episode of Horizon presents a profile of the inventor Sir Frank Whittle and his idea for the first jet engine which changed the nature of air travel.
In this episode, Horizon reports on the last lab samples of smallpox destined to be destroyed. But do we still have much to learn from this virus?
In this episode, Horizon investigates an amazing new sign language developed solely by deaf children and explores if we copy language from what surrounds us.
Horizon reports on a radical new theory by Professor Polly Matzinger about the human body's immune system.
Horizon investigates the real impact that oil pollution has on our environment during a 12 month study.
Horizon reports on the technical and logistical struggles of teams trying for the first time to circumnavigate the earth by balloon.
Horizon investigates the theory that a comet impact in the Gulf of Mexico was responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
Horizon reports on how mainstream science is now looking at whether the brain can affect the immune system.
In this episode, Horizon presents new findings about the dates for the arrival of people in Australia and the invention of art.
Horizon presents a documentary about scientists who now believe that viruses that can kill bacteria, known as bacteriophage, might win the fight against super-germs.
Looks at Ian Waterman, who at 19 caught a virus that destroyed half of his nervous system and who, in spite of medical assertions that he would never walk, feed or move again, managed by sheer will-po…
This Horizon documentary is about how and why, a sheep named Dolly, became the first cloned copy of an adult mammal.
After the 1991 Gulf War, a UN Special Commission was set up to go into war-torn Iraq, seek out Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and destroy or disable them. This remarkable Horizon follow…
Horizon presents a documentary with Jonathan Miller who sets out for the Torres Strait, near Australia, to retrace the footsteps of the first British anthropological expedition 100 years ago. The expe…
Horizon presents the scientist, Graeme Mather, whose claims to be able to cause rainfall, are tested in Mexico with his reputation at stake.
In this documentary, Horizon reports on the genetic research of biologist Mike Levine, whose discovery of a mutant fruit fly led to cures for illnesses as diverse as Parkinson's disease and skin cance…
Horizon examines how much further we can and should go in our treatment of those born too soon in Britain.
Horizon presents the story from Celtic ritual and forensic science with startling conclusions that emerge about the subject and the nature of the evidence itself.
In this story, Horizon looks at the communities that live directly below the shadow of the volcano called Mount Vesuvius.
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This documentary by Horizon presents the story of the four Russian men who orbited earth last year on board the ill-fated Mir space station.
Horizon presents this documentary on how special effects have evolved during the last century of films.
Horizon brings the story of a 40 year struggle to bring 'Antisense' into being and it's current trials with incurable cancer patients.
Horizon examines claims that measures to protect American and NATO troops against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired.
Horizon series on the emergence of the new sex drug Viagra for men.
Horizon explores the history of experimentation with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives.
Horizon tells the story of maverick scientist John Ostrom and his theory that birds are really just dinosaurs with feathers. Thirty years later, a revolution in palaeontology has proven him correct. H…
Horizon investigates how science is fighting against the mosquito-spread disease Malaria.
Horizon follows the work of various scientists attempting to turn back the biological clock.
Horizon presents an investigation into how Thalidomide is being used to treat leprosy, AIDS, and cancer with encouraging results.
In this program, Horizon reveals how laughter and play are crucial to the development of the brain, and how some scientists are recommending play as an alternative to drugs in helping to treat hyperac…
Horizon examines how observations of supernova in distant parts of the universe has provided evidence of the accelerating expansion of the universe. This new evidence suggests the existence of a new t…
Horizon looks at the knowledge gained following the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
In this episode, Horizon reports from Africa on the effect that rising elephant numbers are having on humans and the natural environment.
Horizon presents a documentary looking at the United States heart specialist, Michael DeBakey, and his work and research into making miniature pumps which could help make permanent artificial hearts i…
In this Horizon documentary, we present Alfred Steinschneider's theory on cot death where gaps in breathing could be responsible for the death of many infants.
In this report, Horizon explores the arguments for and against the building of the Space Station Freedom and will it ever justify it's huge cost.
Horizon presents this documentary by scientists who have calculated that the Earth will be hit by a small asteroid within 50 years. How will this effect our planet?
In this report, Horizon investigates the rare disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, which causes muscles and ligaments to turn into solid bone. This disease causes severe disfigurement…
Dramatisation of biologist David Lack's struggle to reconcile scientific evidence for evolution with his belief in God.
Horizon presents a documentary about Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) where in the 1980's, it suddenly became the talk of the town. Tens of thousands of Americans were diagnosed with an illness tha…
Could giant volcanic 'chimneys' on the ocean floor unlock the secret of how life began on Earth?
Horizon reports on a February 1999 catastrophic avalanche at Galtür in Austria that claimed 31 lives. Over the next six months, Horizon followed a team of scientists as they pieced together the extrao…
Horizon presents the extraordinary story of a beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world, the financial markets, and indeed capitalism itself. It could do the unthinkable - it took the risk…
The Aztecs are regarded as the most bloodthirsty of the Central American peoples, but they were also one of the most sophisticated. DrTony Spawforth discovers how, on arriving in Mexico, they created …
In this moving film Horizon follows the Loughran family in their fight to save the life of their daughter Sheila who suffers from cystic fibrosis. They lost their youngest daughter Ann to the disease …
On a barren desert in South America lies one of the greatest archaeological puzzles in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand are hundreds of straight lines, geometric shapes and pi…
There is something so special about diamonds, and they are so valuable, that people have always been prepared to go to the most extraordinary lengths to find them. But how would we feel about the uniq…
Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts …
When and how did space and time begin? The birth of the Universe is one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. It has perplexed the best scientific minds for centuries. Decades before space travel was…
What happens when a completely healthy person wants their leg amputated? Gregg is 55 and does not feel physically whole. This is despite the fact that he is physically healthy and able-bodied. Gregg …
Some people see GM food as a ground-breaking scientific idea that could help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution. Others see it purely as 'Frankenstein foods' on 21st century menus, bringi…
If extra-terrestrials do exist they must have a home. Horizon tells the story of the race to find out where in the Universe this might be. The answer, for scientists across the world, lies in the hunt…
A handful of children around the world cannot tolerate the sun. Any exposure leads rapidly to skin cancer. They must either play indoors during daylight or be protected from head to toe in UV-proof su…
Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able…
Conjoined twins are among the rarest of human beings. There are probably fewer than a dozen adult pairs living in the world today. Only a few hundred pairs of conjoined twins are born in the whole wor…
It sometimes seems as if our planet has no secrets left - but deep beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet scientists have made an astonishing discovery. They’ve found one of the largest lakes in the wo…
On August 2nd 1947, a British civilian version of the wartime Lancaster bomber took off from Buenos Aires airport on a scheduled flight to Santiago. There were 5 crew and 6 passengers on board the pla…
In the summer of 2000, one of the great frontier cities of the Roman Empire, the city of Zeugma, all but disappeared from the face of the Earth under the flood waters of a dam. In a bid to modernise, …
At the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, there is a deadly mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. There are groups of people who are four times less likely to get HIV than other people, so…
Amazing new discoveries in South America are revolutionising what we thought we knew about the dinosaur world. It now seems that South America was home to both the largest meat-eater - so new it's sti…
In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest problems in cosmology - how and why galaxies are created. Incredibly, the answer involves the m…
In 1965 in the Canadian town of Winnipeg, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin boys - Bruce and Brian. Six months later a bungled circumcision left Bruce without a penis. Based on a radical new theory of g…
Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to the test, dissecting his evidence for a lost civilisation. Graham Hancock offers various pieces of evidence to support his theor…
Builders in Miami, Florida unearth a ring of holes. The State then pays $27million to preserve either a Native American village or remnants of a 1950s sewerage system.
A trail from Greenland to Britain via Latvia offers new evidence into how evolution could have seen aquatic life form legs and walk.
A tropical seaweed that escaped from an aquarium is endangering sea life in the Mediterranean and has gone on to infect the California coast.
Tim Lawrence was an all-action stuntman until hit by Parkinson's Disease. Horizon follows his hopes of a more normal lifestyle using Ecstasy - a class A illegal drug.
The controversial theory that for millions of years the Earth was plunged into catastrophe - entirely smothered in ice up to one kilometre thick.
Two disruptive children are followed through a controversial treatment regime.
In November 2000, the international press reported an amazing find: a mummy, which was claimed to be that of an ancient Persian princess, over 2,600 years old. She was encased in a carved stone coffin…
In 2001, scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3 million year old fossil was remarkably complete, and unlike any previous fossil find. Its dis…
Matthew Farrow was born with a rare and fatal blood disease, Fanconi's anaemia. His family and doctors thought he was going to die. Instead, aged just five, he became the first person in the world to …
Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it would destroy…
Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year is out. Mos…
On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave. The entire city and all its inhabitants were lost beneath the sea. What has bewitc…
It began with a ghastly tragedy. In 1985 the massive Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, melting a glacier and sending a vast landslide of mud down on the people asleep in the town of Armero be…
There is a new epidemic sweeping the world. It's been silently growing over the last few decades - only now is it reaching dramatic proportions. If current trends continue, more than one quarter of Br…
The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old…
In September 1991 two hikers made a sensational discovery - a frozen body high in the mountains, near the border between Austria and Italy. It turned out to be 5,300 years old, the oldest frozen mummy…
Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true. Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an …
In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one species of animal remained a mystery; where did birds fit on his evolutionary tree? Several years later his friend and coll…
The World Trade Center was built on revolutionary design principles. It turned conventional architectural and structural techniques on their head. Built from a thin web of steel, its design was effici…
This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold at Christies for o…
For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the early Jurassic, 200 million years ago, they w…
When Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2002 it seemed like a disaster. Molten lava plunged down the hillside and poured into nearby Lake Kivu. Many died, and much…
On 4 April 1962, James Hanratty was led from the condemned cell in Bedford Prison to the gallows. On the way he protested his innocence, as he had done every day since he had been convicted of murder.…
The England football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, believes that modern soccer matches are not won on the pitch, but inside people's minds. This film examines not just how Eriksson got inside his play…
The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an alarming se…
Who were the first people in North America? From where did they come? How did they arrive? The prehistory of the Americas has been widely studied. Over 70 years a consensus became so established that …
Homoeopathy was pioneered over 200 years ago. Practitioners and patients are convinced it has the power to heal. Today, some of the most famous and influential people in the world, including pop stars…
250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that was about to come to a crashing end. Within…
In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin's great rivers. Hunting a hidden city of gold, his expedition found a network of farms, v…
On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outside world for the first time in centuries. The strangers were…
Sleeping is an essential part of everyone's life yet it remains little understood is barely understood. You might think it's a relaxing recharge but in fact your brain is working harder at times overn…
The Earth is under constant bombardment. Each year, many fragments of debris hit our planet. Fortunately for us, most are so small that they burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. However, there are h…
A dirty bomb is a radiological weapon but unlike a nuclear bomb, its purpose is to contaminate rather than destroy. It uses normal explosives to disperse radioactive materials in the local environment…
The drug Viagra revolutionised the treatment of sexual dysfunction in men on its launch five years ago. An accidental discovery, the tablet that gave impotent men the chance once more to have natural …
Understanding of humans' earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what poi…
It was the simplest idea but one with enormous potential. If a gene is defective in the human body, just replace it with one that works properly. Gene therapy would mean that genetic disorders would b…
Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. In the last hundred years they have claimed the lives of over one million people. Earthquakes are destructive mainly because…
Are we alone in the Universe? Or are there aliens somewhere in space? New evidence suggests not only might other life-forms be out there, they may even be living on the planet right next door to us - …
Set against the back drop of awe inspiring geological beauty, a strange scientific adventure sets out to discover how a mineral clad cave network - the height of a 30 storey building and the length of…
Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lob…
265 people died when an Airbus operated by American Airlines crashed into the New York suburb of Queens in November 2001. The twin-engined jet took off from John F Kennedy Airport in fine conditions b…
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome didn't even have its name in February 2003, when it struck its first known victim, Johnny Cheng, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Within days, an international effort led by the Wo…
Remember that long, hot summer? You might never see its like again. And all that talk of global warming? Forget it. This season's first Horizon reveals that a growing number of experts fear Britain c…
This week Horizon investigates the science behind the Bible Code. What he can see is truly horrific; according to Drosnin, the world could end in an atomic holocaust - in 2006. It sounds preposterou…
Mixing powerful and deeply moving footage with telling forensic analysis, Horizon reveals what really went wrong on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The film's final revelation is telling. If NASA had acte…
Horizon tells the microbiological detective story in which some of the best brains in science have been pitted against the most extraordinary bug the world has ever seen. In 1984 it was discovered th…
Could an unknown Englishman have been the first person ever to fly? To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers inaugural flight, Horizon tells the remarkable story of Percy Pilcher. He…
Horizon's Time Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of cutting-edge physics - a place where beautiful, baffling ideas are sometimes indistinguishable from the utterly crazy. On this …
In a film that is in turns charming, disturbing and poignant, Horizon explores the relationship between science and the chimpanzee. It began with a magical story. A young girl ventured alone into the…
With the help of doctors and scientists in America, Germany and Britain, Horizon unpicks the mystery of the Moscow theatre siege. In October 2002, Chechen terrorists took a thousand people hostage in…
This is the truth about the world's most famous, most glamorous and most controversial diet. The Atkins diet says that eating fat can make you thin. It says you don't need to bother watching the calor…
This is the extraordinary story of how a small metal disc is rewriting the epic saga of how civilisation first came to Europe, 3600 years ago. When grave robbers ransacked a Bronze Age tomb in German…
Imagine a world where disease could be eradicated by an injection of tiny robots the size of molecules. That is the hope offered by nanotechnology - the science of microscopically small machines. But …
Thalidomide was one of the biggest medical tragedies of modern times. The images of children born with shrunken limbs still haunt anyone who sees them. And the tragedy is not over. Those children are …
Top quality diamonds at knock down prices? The only catch is: these rocks don't come out of the ground, but are made in a lab. This is the promise offered by a series of recent scientific breakthrough…
Tyrannosaurus rex - it's the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the teeth. Experts marvelled at the force of its bite - ten times…
This is the story of two genuine scientific heroes. For forty years, John Bahcall and Ray Davis were engaged in a single extraordinary experiment - to find out why the Sun shines. In the end they woul…
It's one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. In May this year a Hollywood film staring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom…
Every year we spend £300 million on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do us any good? Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world's biggest killers, such…
Is Wednesday red? Take part in our experiment to test whether your senses overlap. Do melodies have a colour? Take part in our experiment to test whether you hear colours. Imagine if every time you …
Until recently most scientists thought they knew what killed off the dinosaurs. A 10km-wide meteorite had smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, causing worldwide forest fires, tsunamis several…
In the mid-1990s, a team of American science students took on the might of the Las Vegas casinos, and came home with millions of dollars. Hard working engineering students during the week, they became…
In 1610, Galileo used a new invention -- a simple telescope -- to look at Saturn. When he viewed the planet for the first time, he saw something strange. He thought he saw three stars together, a big …
Horizon producer David Sington on why predictions about the Earth's climate will need to be re-examined.
The unpredictable results of the Theory of Relativity. Horizon brings you the second part of a two-part series on Albert Einsten. In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was on holiday in a small resor…
The story of Einstein's most famous equation E=mc² – its role in the creation of the atom bomb and our understanding of the beginnings of the Universe. Horizon brings you the second part of a two-par…
In this documentary, Horizon investigates Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which is one of the most feared and misunderstood of all medical conditions. Despite over 200 scientific pape…
Horizon investigates a strange skull that was discovered in 1848 on the military outpost of Gibraltar. It was undoubtedly human, but also had some of the heavy features of an ape... distinct brow ridg…
In this documentary, Horizon follows the scientific world that was rocked by some astonishing news in March 2002 where a distinguished US government scientist claimed he had made nuclear fusion out of…
This Horizon episode is about genetics in humans. Every parent wants their child to have the best in life. But would this extend to picking the best genes for them? To date, genetic technology has onl…
Horizon brings us back two thousand years ago when a mysterious and little known civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche.
In this documentary on earthquakes, Horizon starts with the worst natural disasters of all time in December 2004. The cause of so much devastation was the most powerful kind of earthquake on the plane…
In this documentary, Horizon presents the largest public health issue of recent years that has attracted such heated debate as the question of whether the MMR vaccine can cause autism. The MMR jab com…
This is the story by Horizon of an epic battle between science and nature. It's a battle to destroy a disease that is one of the biggest killers on the planet: malaria.
How the biggest international forensic operation in history identified the victims of the most devastating natural disaster of recent times.
Has Stephen Hawking been wrong about the universe for the last 30 years? Horizon explores his latest theory.
Is the hobbit a new human species or nothing more than a modern human with a crippling deformity?
At the Xishan Hospital, near Beijing, a remarkable medical pilgrimage is taking place. The sick and the dying are travelling here for a treatment pioneered by Dr Huang Hongyun. He claims he can restor…
Scientists once got sacked for suggesting oily fish was good for you. Now all and sundry are hailing it as a panacea.
Time is running out for the rainforest, but a team of scientists have come up with a unique strategy to help save it: a giant inflatable raft.
Over a billion kilometres away, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, holds tantalising clues to how life began here on Earth. Horizon tells the story of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the most ambitious and…
On 7 July 2005 Britain experienced its first ever suicide attack. Four bombs exploded in central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700. When Scotland Yard launched one of the biggest investi…
The controversial science of epigenetics suggests you may inherit a lot more than you imagine from your forebears. The scientists who believe your genes are shaped in part by your ancestors' life exp…
Is a space tourism revolution just around the corner?
The story of three women as they attempt to overcome the odds and give birth to a baby.
Horizon explores a new theory of evolution.
The coastline that protects the city of New Orleans is sinking into the ocean. Horizon explores what can be done to save the city if it is worth saving at all.
Only 4% of our universe is made from stuff we understand. Horizon explores the 96% that is made up of the elusive substance 'Dark Matter'.
An investigation into the scientific approach to sporting success, as demonstrated by the former East Germany and latterly Australia. British children are already in training for the London Olympics a…
The amazing story of Dr Temple Grandin's ability to read the animal mind, which has made her the most famous autistic woman on the planet.
The curious tale of an American millionaire optometrist and his dream to save humanity.
Is Pluto really a planet? Is it just an asteroid? Horizon investigates.
The science series explores varying attitudes to smoking around the world. Filmed in a single day, the documentary meets the people whose lives are defined by the cigarette. Contributors include Allen…
Horizon explores the topical scientific issues investigates, the truth behind our fear of radioactivity and asks whether our nuclear nightmares really are based on reality. From Hiroshima to Chernobyl…
A team of scientists set out to solve the mystery of chunks of ancient glass scattered in a remote part of the Sahara Desert. Their quest takes them on a perilous journey into the Great Sand Sea, the …
Over 90% of plane crashes have survivors. Horizon investigate what you can do to increase your chances.
Danny Wallace is on a mission to convince the world that chimps are people are to. If they are should they have the same rights as people?
In 2005, Isabelle Dinoire become the first person to receive a new face. The decision made by French surgeons to perform the operation went against the findings of almost every other ethical committee…
It has been predicted that by 2029 computers will be powerful enough to rival that of the human brain. Will be able to download ourselves into a computer and live forever? Or will a race of super inte…
20 robotic cars, with no drivers and no remote controls, race across the Nevada desert. Horizon follows 3 teams and their cars as they develop their vehicles.
A simple virus that started in the belly of a dead bird is set to embark on a global killing spree. H5N1 - a bird flu virus with the potential to become humanised and mutate into the next pandemic flu…
Clouds of alien life forms are sweeping through outer space and infecting planets with life – it may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. The idea that life on Earth came from another planet has been …
What if dinosaurs were still alive today? Would we hunt them, farm them - or even keep them as pets? It's a palaeontologist's dream: the chance to live in a world where dinosaurs are not something to…
How do you save an endangered species? Get the animals in the mood for love. Thomas Hildebrandt possesses one of the world's most extraordinary jobs - getting the planet's endangered animals in the m…
Professor Lesley Regan is on a mission to fill her bathroom cabinet with cosmetics that actually work. Professor Lesley Regan, one of the UK's most well-respected (and glamorous) medical experts, tur…
Pianist Nick van Bloss has Tourette's syndrome. Is his illness a blessing or a curse? Is there really such a thing as the mad genius? Can an illness be both a blessing and a curse? At seven years ol…
After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won't just land on the Moon - they plan to stay. From his office in Nevada, Dennis Hope has spawned a multi-million…
Seven high-flyers are put through a series of tests to measure their intelligence Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? Wha…
Could Professor Jose Torero's fire protection system have saved the Twin Towers? When a fire gets out of control in a skyscraper it tests fire fighters to their limits. Predicting how a fire is behav…
Will the Large Hadron Collider finally reveal the elusive God particle? In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises …
Is it possible to use a knowledge of forensic science, not to catch a killer, but to commit a perfect murder? Modern forensic science should make it impossible to commit murder and get away with it. …
Michael Portillo looks at the science behind executions. Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution. As the Amer…
Psychologists subject six volunteers to a world without stimulation. For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. Six ordinary people are taken to…
Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes th…
A trip through the highs and lows of the UK’s 20 most dangerous drugs. Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law with …
Lifting the lid on the business of human choices in an exclusive guide to making better decisions. We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification,…
While scientists have been searching for the secrets of long life, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. The quest to live longer has been one of humanities oldest dreams, but w…
Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white...it's almost impossible to find a product in the supermarket today that doesn't come with impressive claim…
Use the Drake equation to calculate the number of civilisations in our galaxy. For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien …
Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts . When veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke died in 2004 few suspected that he was yet to uncover…
Horizon journeys into the human memory, from how it emerges in childhood, develops through to adulthood, and fades in middle age. You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts,…
Horizon asks some of the biggest names in science to have a quiet word with the new American president. The United States president is quite simply the most powerful man on earth, but past presidents …
First of a two-part special. Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been officially diagnosed as mentally ill. Horizon asks if you can t…
Second part of the special documentary considering where the line between sanity and madness lies as ten volunteers come together for an extraordinary test. With five 'normal' volunteers and five who…
Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the world. We need to double the amount of food we…
Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what it is that we're asking? Brian visits the …
We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. Fifty years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why this should be is one of modern medicine's greatest puzzles. …
Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavig…
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E1 · Why Are Thin People Not Fat?
Jan 26, 2009·1h 0m
The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing? Medical science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it tu…
Cannabis is the world's favourite drug, but also one of the least understood. Can cannabis cause schizophrenia? Is it addictive? Can it lead you on to harder drugs? Or is it simply a herb, an underval…
Horizon uncovers the secret world of our dreams. In a series of cutting-edge experiments and personal stories, we go in search of the science behind this most enduring mystery and ask: where do dreams…
Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite o…
Why are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o'clock in the morning or crash your car on the motorway at two o'clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day re…
What is wrong with nudity? Why are people embarrassed about their bodies? How and why did they get the way they are? Horizon takes a group of volunteers and subjects them to a series of psychological…
When disaster strikes who lives and who dies is not purely a matter of luck. In every disaster, from those people face once in a lifetime, to those they face every day, there are things that can be do…
David Baddiel, father of two, sets out to answer one of the greatest questions a parent can ask: how best to educate your child. Taking in the latest scientific research, David uncovers some unconven…
Last century, earthquakes killed over one million, and it is predicted that this century might see ten times as many deaths. Yet when an earthquake strikes, it always takes people by surprise. So why …
Ever since he was at school, actor and comedian Alan Davies has hated maths. And like many people, he is not much good at it either. But Alan has always had a sneaking suspicion that he was missing ou…
What makes ordinary people commit extreme acts of violence? Michael Portillo investigates the dark side of human nature, and discovers what it is like to inflict pain.
Do I Drink Too Much? Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the recommended limits? Why does alcohol have such a powerful gri…
With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know wh…
Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the…
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second o…
Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string? But what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery where nothing is as it se…
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E18 · How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
Dec 9, 2009
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world faces a population crisis and if it is the duty of individuals to change the way they live.
Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the recommended limits? Why does alcohol have such a powerful grip on us? How much of …
With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know wh…
Horizon follows the emotional journey of three young people with currently untreatable conditions to see if, within their lifetime, they can be cured. Sophie Morgan is determined not to spend the rest…
Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the…
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second o…
Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string? But what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery where nothing is as it se…
We have an extraordinary relationship with dogs - closer than with any other animal on the planet. But what makes the bond between us so special? Research into dogs is gaining momentum, and scientists…
Just months ago, the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that threatened to kill millions. A new flu variant H1N1 had arrived. In the UK alone, 65,000 deaths were predicted. Yet to date, th…
Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants, painkillers, even tablets to extend youth and improve per…
For centuries scientists have been attempting to come up with an elixir of youth. Now remarkable discoveries are suggesting that ageing is something flexible that can ultimately be manipulated. Horizo…
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent…
Could you have come up with Einstein's theory of relativity? If not - why not? This is what Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics, wants to explore. Marcus readily admits that he is no genius, bu…
Horizon examines the evidence that our ancestors' changing diet and mastery of fire prompted anatomical and neurological changes that took us out of the trees and into the kitchen.
There's something very odd going on in space - something that shouldn't be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. …
Dr Kevin Fong investigates a technique that is used to bring people back from the dead.
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Oct 4, 2010·1h 0m
Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time - an investigation into what is happening to our oceans. He looks at whether it is too late to s…
They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang…
Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the…
A decade ago, scientists announced that they had produced the first draft of the human genome, the 3.6 billion letters of our genetic code. It was seen as one of the greatest scientific achievements o…
Famed for their ability to inflict Armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing the secrets of how they are responsible for both life and death on our planet.
Horizon reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves - a crisis that became America's worst environmental disaster. Engineers and oi…
Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature? His quest takes him to the frontiers of current science as he…
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Clu…
Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded - from the theory that man-made climate change is war…
Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. Breakthroughs have come from studying a remarkable woman in London who has felt no pain at all …
Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A remarkable fusion of mechanical engineering and biology promises to save countless lives across the world. The pro…
Dr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend your heart if it stops working. He meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who…
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E14 · Are We Still Evolving?
Mar 1, 2011·1h 0m
Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions about our species: are we still evolving? There's no doubt that we're a product of millions of years of evolution. But thanks to modern technology and …
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live. In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared as ambush predators, have been released nea…
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Aug 8, 2011·1h 0m
Documentary exploring the impact of colours on people's lives, and how perceptions of them can be influenced by age, gender and mood. The programme examines scientists' claims that different hues have…
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E2 · Seeing Stars
Aug 15, 2011·1h 0m
Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set …
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E3 · The Nine Months That Made You
Aug 22, 2011·1h 0m
Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more lasting effects on you …
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E4 · The Core
Aug 31, 2011·1h 0m
For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface…
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Sep 7, 2011·1h 0m
What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying peo…
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E6 · Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
Sep 14, 2011·1h 0m
Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, wher…
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new fiel…
Like many, Michael Mosley want to get fitter and healthier but can't face hours on the treadmill or trips to the gym. Help may be at hand. He uncovers the surprising new research which suggests many o…
Scientists are expecting a fit of violent activity on the sun which will propel billions of tonnes of superheated gas and pulses of energy towards our planet. They have the power to close down our mod…
We all like to think we are in control of our lives - of what we feel and what we think. But scientists are now discovering this is often simply an illusion. Surprising experiments are revealing that …
Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme. In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country h…
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E12 · The Truth about Fat
Mar 20, 2012·1h 0m
Surgeon Gabriel Weston discovers the surprising truth about why so many people are piling on the pounds, and how to fight the fat epidemic. She discovers the hidden battles of hormones that control pe…
Over the past year, Horizon has been behind the scenes at one of Britain's leading cancer hospitals, the Royal Marsden in London. The film follows Rosemary, Phil and Ray as they undergo remarkable new…
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your skin look younger without surgery. She discovers the latest …
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E2 · Mission to Mars
Jul 30, 2012·1h 0m
Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days time, the nuclear-powered vehicle - the size of a car - will b…
Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. …
Cosmologists talk about their project to create a map of everything in existence, and also reveal that their research has some highly unexpected results, creating a picture stranger than anything they…
Horizon plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the Universe. It is a journey where things don't just become smaller but also a whole lot weirder. Scientists…
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Sep 10, 2012·1h 0m
Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacteria that are becoming resistant to our only defense; antibiotics. Horizon meets t…
It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out…
A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and deat…
Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and it is a lot more surprising than you might think. There ma…
In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secr…
Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap. In a groundbreaking experiment, 50 cats from a village in Surrey are tagged with GPS collars and their every movement is…
50 cats were fitted with GPS collars to track their every movement, and cat-cams to record their unique view of the world. In this groundbreaking experiment, a few cats stood out. They include the in…
Iain Stewart investigates a new and controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground. Sometimes, this is right under the places people live in. Getting it out of the ground involve…
This summer, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is getting ready to feast. A gas cloud three times the size of our planet has strayed within the gravitational reach of our nearest supermas…
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What is that separates us from our …
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances, Mosley is a pessimist who constantly frets about the future.…
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor our…
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them. Hor…
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E3 · Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life
Aug 26, 2013·1h 0m
The hunt for life within the long-dead bones of dinosaurs may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy - but one woman has found traces of life within the fossilised bones of a T Rex. Dr Mary Schweit…
What's worse for us: sugar or fat? To answer the hottest question in nutrition, twin doctors Chris and Xand Van Tulleken go on month long high-fat and high-sugar diets. The effects on their bodies ar…
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Feb 3, 2014·1h 0m
In February 2013, a hole opened up beneath a home in Florida, and swallowed a man. Jeff Bush was asleep when a sinkhole opened up beneath his bedroom. Despite the efforts of his brother to rescue him…
Horizon goes behind the scenes at Nasa to discover how it is preparing for its most ambitious and daring mission: to land men - and possibly women - on the surface of Mars. It's over 40 years since N…
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Feb 17, 2014·1h 0m
As they contain no active ingredient, placebo medicines and pills should not really work, but they are now being shown to be effective in helping treat pain and depression and even alleviating some of…
Horizon uncovers the truth about how you really make decisions. Every day you make thousands of decisions, big and small, and behind all them is a powerful battle in your mind, pitting intuition agai…
When pioneering developmental psychologist Professor Uta Frith started her training back in the 1960s, she met a group of beautiful, bright-eyed young children who seemed completely detached from the …
Horizon tells the inside story of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. With access to the key players on the frontline in the southern Indian Ocean and the British satellite engineers who tr…
Over the last few years, our weather in Britain has become more extreme. Last winter was the wettest ever recorded, as deadly storms battered the country for weeks on end. But previous winters have s…
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E1 · Should I Eat Meat? The Big Health Dilemma
Aug 18, 2014·1h 0m
Michael Mosley investigates the alleged danger in eating red and processed meat, and does a one month test on himself, doubling his meat intake.
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E2 · Should I Eat Meat? How to Feed the Planet
Aug 20, 2014·1h 0m
Dr Michael Mosley seeks to establish the truth about meat. Every year, humans raise and eat 65 billion animals - nine animals for every person on the globe. In this eye-opening documentary, Michael ex…
Changes to the bacteria that live inside all of us are responsible for increasing the number of people with allergies, suggests new research. The show investigates this claim by conducting a unique ex…
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E4 · Inside the Dark Web
Sep 3, 2014·1h 0m
Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence: surveillance. With many concerned that governments and corporations can monitor o…
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E5 · Ebola - The search for a cure
Sep 10, 2014·1h 0m
The Ebola virus. No-one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain - it's one of the most virulent infections known to science. This special episode of Horizon meets the scientists and…
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E6 · Is your Brain Male or Female?
Sep 29, 2014·1h 0m
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently.
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E7 · Secrets of the Solar System
Mar 3, 2015·1h 0m
New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple …
Horizon travels to the South Pole to tell the inside story of the greatest scientific quest of our time. In March 2014, a team of astronomers stunned the scientific world when they announced that thei…
Scientists genuinely don't know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we're made from only make up four per cent. The rest is dark matter and dark energy (for 'dark', read 'don't know'). The…
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E10 · 70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret
May 11, 2015·1h 0m
The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D images of their content, experts are discovering the truth abou…
How bad can our drinking pattern be for our health? Doctors and genetically identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken want to find out. With the current drinking guidelines under review, the twins e…
In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem of satellites mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand acc…
Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest sig…
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-t…
Most of us think that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is just over fussy tidying. But it's actually much more serious. Sophie has to check that she hasn't killed people, looking for dead bodies wh…
Imagine a world where dinosaurs still walk the earth. A world where the Germans won World War II and you are President of the United States. Imagine a world where the laws of physics no longer apply a…
Forget the big bang. The real moment of creation was the Cosmic Dawn - the moment of first light. This is the scientific version of the story of Genesis. The big bang gets all the credit for creating …
The video game industry is a global phenomenon. There are over 1.2 billion gamers across the planet, with sales projected soon to pass $100 billion per year. But their very popularity fuels the contro…
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E1 · The Immortalist
Mar 16, 2016·1h 0m
Investigating the story of how a Russian internet millionaire, Dmitry Itskov, is turning to cutting edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. The programme investigates the real scie…
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E2 · Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control
Mar 23, 2016·1h 0m
Documentary exploring science's long-standing obsession with the idea of gravity control, including recent breakthroughs in the search for loopholes in conventional physics. The programme examines how…
Examining Dark Energy, the mysterious force that is unexpectedly causing the universe's expansion to speed up. Its effects were discovered in 1998, but physicists still do not know what it is, and its…
The oceans define the earth. They are crucial to life and we used to think that they were unique to our blue planet. But we were wrong. It has recently been discovered that there are oceans all over …
This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how …
Liz Bonnin presents a controversial and provocative episode of Horizon, investigating how new scientific research is raising hard questions about zoos - the film explores how and why zoos keep animals…
Dr Xand Van Tulleken is single and looking for love. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry wants to use him as her guinea pig to test whether the algorithms that dating sites use to match people actually work. …
Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over three months of the year, the sun never rises. But it's also ho…
Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions of sufferers across the world. New scanning and gene technology is allowing scientists to identify the diseas…
Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They're everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research on them reveal? Michael reveals what e-cigarettes are really …
Over 62% of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese and this figure is set to rise. A common attitude is that obese people should be ashamed - it is their fault, they have no will power and…
Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrative sponsorship deals to the hundreds of thousands of people…
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the …
The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are genetically identical and both share the same …
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E15 · The Lost Tribes of Humanity
Oct 12, 2016·1h 0m
Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics.
We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the heavens and wondering what the weather might …
Imagine if the food you eat could 'clean' your body and make you feel well. Dr Giles Yeo investigates the latest diet craze and social media sensation - clean eating. In a television first, Giles coo…
The Horizon team have gathered together a team of scientists and doctors to investigate the incredible, natural material that is growing out of our heads - our hair. With access to the research labora…
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E3 · ADHD and Me with Rory Bremner
Apr 25, 2017·1h 0m
Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner is on a personal mission to uncover the science of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), a condition which he has suspected he has. In this film, Ror…
Horizon follows three people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia, to explore what causes this kind of phenomena. Providing a rare first-hand insight into these experiences, they reveal jus…
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E5 · Strange Signals from Outer Space!
May 16, 2017·1h 0m
For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scien…
Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels with the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the team's research, …
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E7 · Antarctica - Ice Station Rescue
Jun 7, 2017·1h 0m
Filmmaker Natalie Hewit follows the everyday people battling in the most extreme environment on Earth to move Halley VI, a vital polar research station. Britain's state-of-the-art Antarctic research b…
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E8 · Cyber Attack - The Day the NHS Stopped
Jun 12, 2017·1h 0m
A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS. On th…
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E9 · 10 Things You Need to Know About the Future
Jun 19, 2017·1h 0m
This episode of Horizon looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers, mathematician Hannah Fry delves into …
The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned th…
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E11 · Dippy and the Whale
Jul 13, 2017·1h 0m
Over the last two years, the BBC's science strand Horizon has been behind the scenes at London's Natural History Museum, following the dramatic replacement of the iconic Dippy the Dinosaur skeleton ca…
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E12 · What Makes a Psychopath?
Aug 29, 2017·1h 0m
Psychopaths have long captured the public imagination. Painted as charismatic, violent predators lacking in all empathy, they provide intrigue and horror in equal measure. But what precisely is a psyc…
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E13 · Mars - A Traveller's Guide
Sep 12, 2017·1h 0m
The dream of sending humans to Mars is closer than ever before. In fact, many scientists think that the first person to set foot on the Red Planet is alive today. But where should the first explorers …
A billion miles from home, running low on fuel, and almost out of time. After 13 years traversing the Saturn system, the spacecraft Cassini is plunging to a fiery death, becoming part of the very plan…
How does a person know their gender? Do they see themselves as male or female, or somewhere in between? More and more people around the world do not identify with the gender they were assigned to at b…
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E1 · My Amazing Brain: Richard's War
Feb 5, 2018·1h 0m
The rarely seen journey back to recovery of Richard Gray after a life-changing catastrophic stroke. Initially bed bound and unable to do anything, including speak, the initial outlook was bleak, yet o…
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E2 · Teenagers vs Cancer: A User's Guide
Jun 26, 2018·1h 0m
What is it like to be young and find out you have got cancer? What you will find out in this film may surprise you. This film, narrated by actor and comedian Jack Whitehall, tells 11 inspirational sto…
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does l…
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E4 · Spina Bifida & Me
Jul 26, 2018·1h 0m
One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. 30 years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida herself, it is a condition she …
'To send a spacecraft there is a little bit insane,' says Scott Bolton when talking about Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. But that is exactly what he has done, because Scott is head o…
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tul…
Deception is an integral part of human nature and it is estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn't lie? In a radical experiment, pioneering scient…
Dr. Michael Mosley cures real pain with fake pills in Britain's largest ever placebo trial.
We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. This affects our health as much as our diet and whether we exercise. So what can we do to manage this internal clo…
Can we predict avalanches? How can we save more lives? A team of scientists led by Prof Danielle George create a massive avalanche to find out.
Nearly half of us take a vitamin or mineral supplement every day, but what are these pills sold on every high street actually doing? Digging deeper than the eye-catching words on the packaging, Dr Gil…
Could a machine replace your doctor? Dr Hannah Fry explores the incredible ways AI is revolutionising healthcare - and what this means for all of us. This film chronicles the inside story of the AI he…
In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormonal contraception were …
Dr Kevin Fong makes a personal journey through the moral questions about death that face not just the medical profession, but each and every one of us.
In the wake of the Gatwick drone crisis, high-risk specialist Aldo Kane investigates the threat drones pose to UK skies and tests the new technology we can use to keep ourselves safe.
We spend 190 billion pounds a year on groceries, but can we trust our supermarkets to tell us the truth about what we’re buying? Dr Hannah Fry and Priya Tew investigate the food we eat.
Following the teams inside Facebook, revealing a hidden technological playground. The film tackles difficult questions, like how our data is used, and also shows how Facebook works.
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E5 · The 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure
Jul 22, 2019·1h 0m
Following the NHS as they start to implement proton beam therapy, an advanced but expensive cancer treatment, as well as following as the first children awaiting the lifesaving treatment.
At a pivotal moment in the history of one of the world’s oldest drugs, Dr Javid Abdelmoneim investigates the latest medical and scientific research into the effects of cannabis on the brain and body.
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E1 · Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis
Jan 16, 2020·1h 0m
Dr Michael Mosley immerses himself on the frontline of our prescription painkiller habit. In America, it is an epidemic. Now, new evidence raises concern about the UK's use of prescription opioids.
Naturalist Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet, asking whether the earth can sustain predictions of ten billion people by 2050.
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E3 · Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings
Mar 23, 2020·1h 0m
The unknown story of the worst child-poisoning case since thalidomide, featuring a landmark legal battle by a group of mothers determined to uncover the truth.
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E4 · The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories
Apr 20, 2020·1h 0m
Fred Sirieix and Zoe Williams open a restaurant with a difference, where every calorie eaten must be burned off by a secret gym team.
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E5 · Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed
Apr 24, 2020·1h 0m
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its launch, this film tells the remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronauts risked their lives t…
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E6 · The Great British Intelligence Test
May 4, 2020·1h 0m
Dr Hannah Fry and Michael Mosley put the public to the test, pitting young and old, males and females and tech lovers and readers against each other in a battle of wits.
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E7 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery
May 21, 2020·1h 0m
Comedian Tony Slattery meets experts to explore his psychological problems, finding out if he is definitely bipolar, confronting addiction and opening up about a childhood trauma.
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E8 · Pluto: Back From the Dead
Jul 6, 2020·1h 0m
The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity - where some form of alien life might exist.
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Jan 4, 2021·1h 0m
Gregg Wallace and mathematician Hannah Fry invite five special guests to a unique dinner party where they are scored on the environmental impact of every dish they choose.
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E2 · The Secret Science of Sewage
Mar 18, 2021·1h 0m
Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in human…
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E3 · Dolly: The Sheep That Changed the World
Nov 23, 2021·59m
The story of the scientists who created Dolly, the sheep that changed the world in this documentary, part of the Horizon series. This Horizon branded documentary tells the full story for the first tim…
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E4 · The Vaccine
Jul 8, 2021·1h 29m
With unique access to five vaccine teams around the globe, this is the extraordinary inside story of the unprecedented quest to develop and make vaccines to fight Covid-19.
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E1 · How to Sleep Well with Michael Mosley
Mar 31, 2022·1h 0m
As more people than ever report struggling with their sleep, Michael Mosley uses the latest science to explore how this impacts our health and what can be done to improve our sleep.
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E2 · Fergal Keane: Living with PTSD
May 9, 2022·1h 0m
BBC News special correspondent Fergal Keane has covered conflict and brutality for more than 30 years and is known for reporting with humanity and extraordinary empathy, but in 2020 revealed he had be…
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E3 · Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
Jun 2, 2022·1h 0m
When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, Hannah Fry explores the problematic issues surrounding how we screen for and treat cancer, asking if we could be overmedicalising it.
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E4 · Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe
Jul 14, 2022·59m
The inside story of the James Webb Space Telescope, following the Nasa team building the £8 billion device and the scientists taking its first image of distant stars and galaxies.
In medical science, there’s been no longer harder fight than against malaria. This is the inside story of a historic new vaccine - from the Oxford lab behind the Covid jab. Part of the Horizon strand
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E1 · Confessions of a Brain Surgeon
Aug 18, 2025·58m
Top brain surgeon Henry Marsh is facing his own life-threatening diagnosis. He reveals the huge risks and emotional impact of a job filled with difficult life-and-death decisions. This heartwarming po…
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E2 · Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic
Sep 22, 2025·58m
Virologist Dr Chris van Tulleken embarks on a global investigation into the hunt for the pathogen that could trigger the next pandemic and the cutting-edge science developed to tackle it. Known only …
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Sep 29, 2025·58m
Theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili goes on a journey through 600 million years of evolution to uncover how the human brain, the most complex structure known in the universe, came to exist.…
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Oct 6, 2025·58m
Jim watches primates in action to see how they tackle survival challenges, revealing the clever tricks that shaped the brain's thinking. But the real breakthrough came when brains learned to be social…
