Horizon - Season 40
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 Mystery Of Easter Island
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...
Living Nightmare
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...
Averting Armageddon
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...
Dirty Bomb
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...
Sexual Chemistry (Update)
The drug Viagra revolutionised the treatment of sexual dysfunction in men on its launch five years ago. An accidental discovery, the tablet that gave...
The Day We Learned To Think
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....
Trial and Error
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....
Earthquake Storms
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...
Life On Mars (Update)
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...
The Secret Life Of Caves
Set against the back drop of awe inspiring geological beauty, a strange scientific adventure sets out to discover how a mineral clad cave network -...
God On The Brain
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...
Flight 587
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...
SARS: The True Story
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....
The Big Chill
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...
The Bible Code
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...
Last Flight of the Columbia
Mixing powerful and deeply moving footage with telling forensic analysis, Horizon reveals what really went wrong on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The...
The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine
Horizon tells the microbiological detective story in which some of the best brains in science have been pitted against the most extraordinary bug the...
Percy Pilcher's Flying Machine
Could an unknown Englishman have been the first person ever to fly? To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers inaugural flight,...
Time Trip
Horizon's Time Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of cutting-edge physics - a place where beautiful, baffling ideas are sometimes...