Horizon - Season 4
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
Sons of Cain
Horizon probes into whether aggressiveness is our birthright and can society live without violence?
When Is a Body Dead? / How to Win Friends and Influence People
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...
How Best to Make a Man / How Best to Make a Scientist
In this episode, Horizon looks at a new school of mathematics and physics near Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. This school uses a competition held...
Dynamo - The Life of Michael Faraday
Horizon profiles the life of the greatest physical scientist: Michael Faraday. Crucial events of his scientific career in science are reconstructed.
Migraine
Horizon looks at some research recently carried out into the migraine headache and the means to provide treatment for it.
How Safe Is Surgery?
Horizon probes in the danger of germs and infection in the operating theater and the methods currently used to prevent contamination.
Sleep and Dreams
Joel, a healthy young American, is reduced to a restless neurotic state after being deprived of his dreams for three nights. Mr Bates, an...
The Shape of War to Come
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...
Memory
Horizon explores the part of the human brain devoted to memory.
Masters of the Desert
Horizon reports on the methods being used to irrigate the Negev Desert, making it fertile based on the methods of ancient civilizations.
Cancer - The Search for the Virus
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...
Cancer - The Smoker's Gamble
Why is there doubt in so many people's minds about the relationship between lung cancer and smoking? Tonight's programme examines the latest...
Science and the Supernatural
Horizon explores the work in the developmental field of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP).
Hypnosis
Horizon explores the misconceptions that people have about what hypnosis is and looks at the medical implications of what it can do.
The War of the Boffins
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...
Aspects of Alcohol
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.
Lords of the Sea
Horizon looks into how man is learning to survive in the oceans.
Will Art Last?
In this episode, Horizon reports on new materials that are being used as art media by gaining inspiration from factory and industrial processes.
Air Safety: The Unknown Factor
Horizon investigates air navigation and flight safety.
The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary
Horizon reports on the problem of exterminating the pine processionary caterpillars infestation from the pine forests of Provence, Canada.
Koestler on Creativity
Arthur Koestler talks about the psychological theories of creativity and the role of the mind in science and art.
The World of Ted Serios
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.
Professor in Toyland
Prof. J. Sumner-Miller asks some questions for enquiring minds on walking, singing, swimming, and flying toys.