It is Christmas Day in the house of Hastings. The time (the 1830s), the place (a suburban Victorian...

In this special episode, Horizon reports on Erich von Däniken and his theories about astronauts visi...

This special episode of Horizon shows the latest advances in research into how the visual eyesight s...

This Horizon special episode recalls the highlights of the past 25 years of the space age.

In the first part of this special two-part series, Horizon reports on the yellow rain problem in Sou...

In this special episode, Horizon brings you a report on space exploration and exploitation. The firs...

This is the second part, of a two-part special series. In this episode, Horizon looks at the history...

Horizon celebrates twenty one years of work, achievement, and awards with a birthday compilation of...

This report by Horizon looks into how the apparitions of Halley's comet came to be predicted so accu...

Special on Halley's comet

This Horizon special follows the 20 months preparation of the five astronauts who are to man the Ame...

This Horizon special explores the production and processes behind the scenes of the new five pound n...

This Horizon special episode is part one of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, and eng...

This Horizon special episode is part two of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, and eng...

This Horizon special episode is the last part of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, an...

This Horizon special program explores what happened when the "Giotto" explorer spacecraft passed wit...

This documentary by Horizon reveals the disturbing discoveries made in over 40 inspections looking f...

This report by Horizon brings you the results of a landmark survey about sex.

This Horizon special looks at the mysterious changes in wildlife that has been reported in the USA a...

Horizon celebrates its 30th birthday by checking on some of the scientific predictions of last three...

In this special episode, Horizon examines the use of foetal surgery for life saving operations.

First part of a two-part drama looking at the work and life of Albert Einstein. Mixes archival mater...

This is the second part of a two-part Horizon series on Albert Einstein looking at Einstein's life a...

First part of a two-part investigation into BSE. Looks into the scientific confusion and official bu...

This is part two of a two-part Horizon series on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), more common...

An update on the earlier 1992 episode, and the continuing story of the Carbon 60 molecule.

Follows archeologist Natalya Polosmok as she journeys to the Altay Mountains in southern Siberia to...

In this second part of the Ice Mummies trilogy, attention turns to Ötzi, the Neolithic man plucked w...

This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high...

This is part one of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explorer...

This is part two of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explorer...

This is part three of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explor...

This programme traces the lessons learned from a century of road fatalities. How have car makers lea...

In this documentary special, Horizon explores how to solve the problem of sailors being unable to pi...

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this...

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this...

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this...

This is part one of a two-part special Horizon series about Atlantis. In this episode, Horizon explo...

This is part two of a two-part special Horizon series about Atlantis. In this episode, Horizon puts...

Will we find the magic formula that allows us to live forever in the 21st Century?

Ancient diseases we thought we had defeated are returning to haunt us, and plagues of new viruses an...

Will we ever be able to hand-pick genes to manufacture our own tailor-made baby?

Horizon explores how the search for Martians is hotting up.

Tantalising new evidence has emerged that life could exist on Mars. But to find out for sure humans...

In August 2000, the Russian submarine, the Kursk, sank with the loss of 118 lives. It was a tragedy...

In this documentary, Horizon reports on a skeleton was found 50 years ago in Southern Italy. The bon...

A team of doctors conducts potentially life-saving experiments in Horizon's 'death zone' This two-p...

A team of doctors conducts potentially life-saving experiments in Horizon's 'death zone' This two-p...

Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behi...

First of a two-part special. Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are '...

Second part of the special documentary considering where the line between sanity and madness lies as...

Professor Brian Cox takes a look through nearly 50 years of BBC archive at the story of man's relati...

In the wake of the swine flu outbreak, virologist Dr Mike Leahy goesw back over 50 years of BBC arch...

The intriguing possibility of life on Mars has fuelled man's quest to visit the Red Planet. Drawing...

In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading fo...

Dr Susan Jebb takes a look through nearly fifty years of amazing BBC archive of mankind's relationsh...

As the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to ex...

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how our understanding of intelligence ha...

Professor Iain Stewart examines the powerful geological forces that unleashed the devastating Japane...

In 2011, after more than 30 years of service, America's space shuttle will take to the skies for the...

Our understanding of the world around us is better now than ever before. But are we any closer to kn...

Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus delves into the Horizon archive to find out how science has shap...

Dallas Campbell explores how mankind's understanding of dinosaurs has developed since the 1970s. He...

Horizon goes behind the scenes at CERN to follow one of the most epic and expensive scientific quest...

Dallas Campbell looks back through the Horizon archives to find out what science can tell us about o...

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: rob...

Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come...

Kevin Fong looks back through 40 years of Horizon archives to explore what science has revealed abou...

Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks ba...

Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rove...

Dallas Campbell looks back through almost 50 years of the Horizon archives to chart the scientific b...

On a bright, cold morning on 15th February 2013, a meteorite ripped across the skies above the Ural...

Transplant surgery has now reached incredible heights, from achieving full face transplants to growi...

Liz Bonnin delves in to the world of invention, revealing the people and technologies set to transfo...

Changes in the weather, pesticides, and even a virus have all all been blamed for the ongoing mass d...

It was hoped that Comet ISON could be the brightest and most spectacular comet for a generation. Aft...

To celebrate its 50th birthday, Horizon invites the public to play a role in tackling the greatest c...

Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that...

Something peculiar has happened to Britain's weather. During the last two months we have heard frequ...

Horizon theorizes how life could be in 2002, using extracts from previous Horizon episodes.

Darwin's theory of evolution transformed our view of the world. But what would he think of the progr...

An updated report on AIDS, a catastrophic collapse of the immune system that leads to a bizarre rang...

A Horizon special dramatizing the race at the University of Cambridge in 1951 for the discovery of D...

Alice Roberts looks through 45 years of Horizon archive material to see how science came to understa...

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theor...

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the mu...

Documentary looking at the perception of AI from 1964 to the present day. Can we be optimistic about...

Astronaut Tim Peake's video diary of the two years leading up to his arrival at the International Sp...

Comedian Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for this one-off special programme, produced as part of BBC2'...

The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age - following a small ba...

The Life and Times of El Niño combines history and science to show how this meteorological monster h...

It's a macabre paradox, but almost every advance in aviation safety has been driven by a crash. Afte...

In the 1950s up to 8,000 people died every year on the roads in this country - a truly horrific figu...

Playful pets, fearsome fighters or deadly hunters? Millions of us have cats in our homes, yet we kno...

The second episode of this unique scientific study reveals the wild side of pet cats. Using GPS trac...

In the final episode of this groundbreaking scientific study, Liz Bonnin and a team of scientists re...

Instead of reaching for the latest fad diet, the best way to lose weight successfully is a personali...

It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in normal life. The volunteers have been given o...

So far the volunteers have successfully been losing lost weight, but now the honeymoon period is ove...

Professor Brian Cox takes a journey through the BBC science archive to explore the story of mankind'...

In an intensely personal and often surprising film for BBC Two, Alastair Campbell candidly talks abo...

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to Antarctica, years after he lived and worked...

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs's return to Antarctica becomes something of a rescue mission. The British...

Investigating the scientific facts and figures behind the biggest public health crisis in living mem...

Dr Chris van Tulleken, Dr Hannah Fry and Michael Mosley examine the latest research and explore some...

In this third Horizon special, Dr Chris Van Tulleken is joined by his brother Xand and Dr Guddi Sing...

The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age - following a small ba...

Horizon 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.

Horizon explores the findings of physicists at Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. Who, after two yea...

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 befor...

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 behin...

Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important rese...

Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how star...

Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towar...

Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-B...

Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the R...

Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologis...

Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufactur...

Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually findi...

When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplan...

Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physio...

Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in Califor...

This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhap...

Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion b...

The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Georg...

Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international re...

Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to...

On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent discip...

What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty...

Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.

Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has bro...

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,...

Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and su...

Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the Univ...

Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with...

A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist...

Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu...

North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men o...

A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until bi...

Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great in...

Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by at...

The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen....

Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they...

Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars. The Editors of two leading...

Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work...

Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight exper...

Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic...

Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with a...

This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells. An interview wit...

Horizon reports on the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many parents know that their chil...

Horizon looks at the scientific research being carried out in the Antarctic under the guidance the S...

Horizon investigates the stresses on athletes.

Christopher Chataway presents a program on the development of the rocket, first as a weapon, and the...

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 o...

The survival of Britain as an industrial power depends of science and on scientists. But are our sci...

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...

In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberi...

Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his...

Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to prov...

Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods current...

Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his...

Will the next major war be fought with biological and chemical weapons? What are the available weapo...

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 t...

In this the first of two programmes dealing with cancer, Horizon looks at the intensive search now g...

Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking?...

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...

During the human struggles between the British and German air forces ... another conflict was going...

Horizon looks at a Scottish chemist's unusual application for whisky: a measure of radioactive carbo...

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 inspir...

Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.

Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from...

Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in sci...

Horizon looks into the life of Ted Serios who claims to have psychic powers and to be able to projec...

Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and fl...

Horizon reports on Prof. Sir John Baker who is a distinguished British engineer, tracing his career...

This episode covers interviews with surgeons and research workers discussing the need for animal exp...

In England addicts get their heroin, and often cocaine, on the National Health Service: our system h...

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 prob...

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, d...

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 caus...

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...

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 positi...

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...

This is the fictional drama about the evidence for and against the charges that Dr. Alfred Noble mis...

Horizon explores the possibility that our civilization as a whole can be viewed as a pattern based o...

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 "Mag...

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...

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...

Horizon reports on the problems associated with raising and educating children of very high intellig...

This episode is a biography of the late professor J. B. S. Haldane whose life is described by his fa...

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 a...

In scientific circles extra-sensory perception is a subject which has never failed to arouse controv...

This report by Horizon examines the reason for a fall in the percentage of school children doing sci...

This episode of Horizon is about advertising, looking at how it works and the application of scienti...

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...

Nicholas Kurti, Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, specializes in the field o...

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 hea...

In this episode, Horizon examines our attempts to understand one of the oldest inhabitants of the se...

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...

Horizon reports on the research being carried out in the fields of botany, astronomy, biochemistry,...

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increase...

The Honorable A. W. Benn addresses young art and technology students on the implications of increase...

Schizophrenia is an unsolved mystery of modern medicine. Horizon looks at some of the possible expla...

In this episode, Horizon reports on the problems of pain, and the theory put forward that pain is cl...

Horizon explores "man's best friend", the dog, and examines its origins and how its special relation...

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 h...

Horizon reports on the research into high-energy physics carried on at C.E.R.N. laboratory located n...

The props for this programme are pistols, muskets and, above all, explosives. For 30 years now these...

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 ripp...

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 o...

Horizon investigates how drinking affects human behavior.

Horizon covers a simulated war game of a Middle East crisis, with different teams playing the roles...

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...

This episode of Horizon centers on the study of the moon rock samples brought back to the earth by t...

Horizon investigates the history of the life and work of Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of the firm Rol...

This is the first part of a two-part episode on diseases afflicting people today. Horizon looks at t...

This is the second part of a two-part episode on diseases afflicting people today. Horizon looks at...

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...

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 Dr...

This episode of Horizon looks at the National Health Service of Britain and the enormous demands tha...

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 preservati...

On this episode of Horizon, the science behind the cosmetic industry and the social and psychologica...

This a a report by Horizon on the research in the USA and Canada into the habits of the wolf in its...

Horizon explores the use and role of statistics in modern society and how they are needed for planni...

Horizon reveals new evidence found by archaeologists that have now traced our origins back to the ex...

In this episode, Horizon reports on how the TV series "Man and Science Today" compares the British N...

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,...

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-vivis...

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...

This episode of Horizon reports on the revolution in the size of oil tankers showing present and fut...

Horizon looks at problems caused by the rapid reproduction rate of insects and their increasing resi...

Horizon reports on Professor Claude Levi-Strauss who has been studying and analyzing the so-called p...

This episode of Horizon investigates the history of tanks in the last fifty years and the dominant r...

In this story, Horizon investigates the artificial intelligence of computers by watching a chess gam...

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...

Horizon reports on some of the pure scientific research work carried out at the Smithsonian Tropical...

This episode by Horizon is a dramatized reconstruction from original transcripts of the inquiry into...

In this episode, Horizon looks a the efforts of zoos to save animal species from extinction by breed...

In this episode, Horizon looks at the renowned British hospital for children, Great Ormond Street, a...

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 t...

The first of a two-programme investigation in which Horizon and Man Alive have combined forces. This...

Kuru is a unique disease of the people of New Guinea. Horizon goes with Prof. E. J. Field to find ou...

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, i...

In 1971, Horizon reviews the life and work of Prof. Hans Eysnck, the most controversial psychologist...

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 i...

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 land...

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 th...

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...

Do city planners in Liverpool have unrealistic expectations? Horizon looks into the development and...

This is a two part episode of Horizon. First, Horizon looks at the life of centenary Ernest Rutherfo...

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...

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 subm...

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 B...

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 thes...

Horizon explores if a doctor's treatment of the patient is always in the best interest of the patien...

In this episode, Horizon looks the the ecological movement, and the resistance against the movement...

In this report by Horizon, the effect of boring jobs on industrial relations is looked at, along wit...

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...

This episode of Horizon follows the expedition of two German naturalists exploring the Northwestern...

This story by Horizon is about American research into techniques for controlling bodily functions wi...

In this report, Horizon looks at the various aspects of volcanoes and explaining the views of some v...

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...

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...

Horizon explores the development and techniques of brain surgery from the 1950's to present-day in B...

Horizon reconstructs a day in the life of the old Charing Cross Hospital in Britain just fifty years...

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 Englis...

Horizon reports that High Energy Physics shows a pattern of thought that challenges the very roots o...

This episode of Horizon is about the east coast marshes of America, called the "Wetlands" and the ef...

Horizon investigates the research that is going into the ageing process to find out its causes and p...

This epidsode of Horizon reports on how a group of zoologists at Oxford Scientific Films in England...

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 E...

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 alterna...

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...

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 o...

How easy is it to get sterilized? Should there be abortion on demand? Do we need a free contraceptiv...

In this documentary by Horizon, we look at chemical warfare and the associated environmental problem...

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 effi...

In this episode, Horizon investigates the chances of survival and chances of a normal life for babie...

This Horizon documentary shows the work of the Cambridge Coral Starfish Research Group off of Port S...

In this report, Horizon studies the problem of backache and investigates some remarkable new spine r...

Horizon covers Heathrow Airport in England and in particular, the work which is being done to make i...

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, espec...

In this episode of Horizon, you will find that many people suffer chronic pain and yet others cannot...

This report by Horizon examines the work of Sir Alister Hardy who has set up a research unit to exam...

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 p...

In this episode of Horizon, Prof. John Taylor of the London University looks at the effects of gravi...

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...

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 an...

This episode of Horizon documents the sources, uses, and properties of the element mercury and exami...

Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or...

Horizon reports on the inhabitants islands east of New Guinea who have evolved a system of intercomm...

This episode of Horizon explains how our body fights infections and cancers and brings us up-to-date...

This episode of Horizon is about various experiments on migratory birds and homing pigeons to try an...

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 techniqu...

This episode of Horizon is about the history of the bicycle and the possibility of it being able to...

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 b...

In this report, Prof. John Maynard Smith looks back at some of the subjects Horizon has presented si...

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,...

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 ye...

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 fro...

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...

In this episode, Horizon reports on the rising number of imigrant doctors working in the National He...

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 d...

Horizon investigates some of the risks and problems involved in bringing oil from the North Sea asho...

This report by Horizon explores how far people are prepared to suppress their own moral scruples in...

Horizons reviews the scientific work of Americans in the field of research in communication with ani...

Horizon presents Dr. Schumacher's theory that use of modern technology could make the working week a...

Sixty years ago a Dutch scientist discovered a phenomenon that overturned the electrical rule book....

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 shorta...

This documentary by Horizon reports on the development of cinematographic special effects from 1890'...

Horizon presents a dramatized documentary on the rise to power of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, a young...

This investigative report by Horizon covers an investigation into the deaths of people who inhaled a...

Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothe...

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...

By the end of 1974, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter had all been visited by spacecraft. For the fir...

This report by Horizon covers an investigation by a group of Australian scientists that looks into t...

This report by Horizon describes the resistance to antibiotics, fast growing in all countries, and t...

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 t...

This episode of Horizon follows the progress of Benjamin Pile, born on 22 November, 1974, at Oxford...

This report by Horizon covers an experiment at McMaster University Medical School, in Ontario, Canad...

Horizon investigates the attempts by the University of Newcastle in England to define and create an...

Horizon explores the psychology of music, as it explains why music has such a powerful emotive effec...

This report by Horizon brings you scientists that are using Antarctica as a giant natural lab to stu...

Horizon investigates the discovery of gaseous anaesthetic from 1840 until the early years of 20th ce...

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...

This episode of Horizon describes the various aspects of the pollution problem of the Mediterranean...

In this Horizon episode, Rene Thom's mathematical discovery of the catastrophe theory is investigate...

This documentary by Horizon commemorates the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6,...

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 Maharish...

This documentary by Horizon is about the Trobriand islanders, whose culture is based on the Kula, a...

Horizon investigates heart transplant research and techniques perfected and currently used by Dr. No...

This episode of Horizon is about symbiosis - the close association between two or more species for t...

Horizon reports on the country of Tanzania, a country that spends only one dollar per person on heal...

This episode of Horizon explores what actually happens inside our bodies using new optical technique...

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 field...