Seasons & episodes

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 communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

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 French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

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 from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

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 defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

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 the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.