Horizon - Season 33
Trailer: Horizon
Runtime: 60:14 Min
Quality: HD
First Air Date: Feb 04, 1964
Last Air Date: Jul 22, 2024
Episode: 1162 Episode
Season: 60 Season
The Butchers of Boxgrove
Investigates the case of the "Boxgrove Man". Follows archaeologist Mark Roberts who tries to piece together the history of the first Englishman, from...
Fermat's Last Theorem
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...
A Miracle for Cancer ?
Examines the latest research aimed at conquering cancer. Includes research into vaccines for prostate cancer and skin cancer.
Nature's Numbers
Follows a group of biologists Conservation International who take a pragmatic approach to what species can be saved.They travel to the Bolivian...
The Gene Race
Follows two teams of researchers, in Britain and USA as they use radically different genetic techniques in the race to find an effective treatment...
Masters of the Ionosphere
Recounts the history of scientific attempts from Marconi onwards to understand the atmospheric layer, known as the ionosphere. Discusses interest...
Assault on the Male (revisited)
Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
Death by Design
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...
The Planet Hunters
Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they search for planets with liquid water on them, the prerequisite for life
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
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...
Fallout from Chernobyl
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...
TV is Dead, Long Live TV
In this documentary, Horizon compares the future of television with the years of experimentation before the first BBC broadcasts in 1936.
Aliens from Mars
An investigation into claims that life once existed on Mars. NASA scientists and their critics discuss the fossils discovered in a small meteoric...
Living Death
Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS....
The Time Lords
An investigation into claims by researchers that time travel is not only theoretically possible but is already happening.
Noah's Flood
Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the...