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Horizon Special: The Vaccine

The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age - following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on Covid-...

Coronavirus Special - What We Know Now

In this third Horizon special, Dr Chris Van Tulleken is joined by his brother Xand and Dr Guddi Singh to take us through the latest developments and answer curr...

Coronavirus Special - Part 2

Dr Chris van Tulleken, Dr Hannah Fry and Michael Mosley examine the latest research and explore some of the big questions about the new coronavirus and the pand...

Coronavirus Special - Part 1

Investigating the scientific facts and figures behind the biggest public health crisis in living memory as a new coronavirus takes an unprepared world by storm....

Ice Station Antarctica: Part Two

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs's return to Antarctica becomes something of a rescue mission. The British Antarctic Survey reveals how it will save the Halley Resear...

Ice Station Antarctica: Part One

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to Antarctica, years after he lived and worked at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station. &...

Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me

In an intensely personal and often surprising film for BBC Two, Alastair Campbell candidly talks about his experience living with depression and explores if rad...

Journey to the Moon: A Horizon Special

Professor Brian Cox takes a journey through the BBC science archive to explore the story of mankind 's relationship with the moon, from James Burke testing Nasa...

What's The Right Diet For You? Part

So far the volunteers have successfully been losing lost weight, but now the honeymoon period is over. It is the final two months of the diet, and their minds a...

What's The Right Diet For You? Part 2

It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in normal life. The volunteers have been given one of three diets to follow - based on their genes, their ho...

What's The Right Diet For You? Part 1

Instead of reaching for the latest fad diet, the best way to lose weight successfully is a personalised approach - diets tailored to your individual biology and...

Cat Watch 214 - Cat Talk

In the final episode of this groundbreaking scientific study, Liz Bonnin and a team of scientists reveal the secret language of our cats, the surprising convers...

Cat Watch 214 - The Lion in Your Lap

The second episode of this unique scientific study reveals the wild side of pet cats. Using GPS trackers and cat cameras, they show how these felines transform ...

Cat Watch 214 - A Cat's Eye View

Playful pets, fearsome fighters or deadly hunters? Millions of us have cats in our homes, yet we know very little about them. In this series, Liz Bonnin joins f...

Impact! A Horizon Guide to Car Crashes

In the 19s up to 8, people died every year on the roads in this country - a truly horrific figure. Thankfully it has now fallen to around 2, a year - still a te...

Impact! A Horizon Guide to Plane Crashes

It's a macabre paradox, but almost every advance in aviation safety has been driven by a crash. After every crash, investigators determine its cause and scienti...

The Life and Times of El Niño

The Life and Times of El Niño combines history and science to show how this meteorological monster has affected global economy and political history. As ...

Horizon Special: The Vaccine

The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age - following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on Covid-...

Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter

Comedian Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for this one-off special programme, produced as part of BBC2's sitcom season. Jimmy turns venerable documentary strand H...

Tim Peake Special - How to be an Astronaut

Astronaut Tim Peake's video diary of the two years leading up to his arrival at the International Space Station in December 21....

The Horizon Guide to AI

Documentary looking at the perception of AI from 1964 to the present day. Can we be optimistic about all that AI can deliver - or fearful of its ability to cont...

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and whether it ...

Climate Change: A Horizon Guide

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific undertakings in histor...

Sex: A Horizon Guide

Alice Roberts looks through 4 years of Horizon archive material to see how science came to understand sex, strived to solve our problems with it and even helped...

Life Story

A Horizon special dramatizing the race at the University of Cambridge in 191 for the discovery of DNA....

A Killer in the Village - Update

An updated report on AIDS, a catastrophic collapse of the immune system that leads to a bizarre range of cancers and potentially fatal infections....

Darwin's Dream

Darwin's theory of evolution transformed our view of the world. But what would he think of the progress we have made since?...

Festival 77: Horizon 22

Horizon theorizes how life could be in 22, using extracts from previous Horizon episodes....

The Great British Drought

Something peculiar has happened to Britain's weather. During the last two months we have heard frequent stories of forest fires, dried-up reservoirs and even ru...

The Transit of Venus: A Horizon Special

Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves - the transit of...

The £1 Million Challenge

To celebrate its th birthday, Horizon invites the public to play a role in tackling the greatest challenges facing science today. This special episode of Horizo...

Comet of the Century: A Horizon Special

It was hoped that Comet ISON could be the brightest and most spectacular comet for a generation. After travelling towards the sun for ten thousand years, it app...

What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special

Changes in the weather, pesticides, and even a virus have all all been blamed for the ongoing mass deaths of bees Bill Turnbull meets the scientists who are fit...

Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special

Liz Bonnin delves in to the world of invention, revealing the people and technologies set to transform all our lives. She examines the conditions that are promi...

Mend Me: A Horizon Guide to Transplants

Transplant surgery has now reached incredible heights, from achieving full face transplants to growing organs in the lab. This Horizon Guide looks back at the e...

The Truth About Meteors: A Horizon Special

On a bright, cold morning on 1th February 21, a meteorite ripped across the skies above the Ural mountains in Russia, distintegrating into three pieces and expl...

The Final Frontier: A Horizon Guide to the Universe

Dallas Campbell looks back through almost years of the Horizon archives to chart the scientific breakthroughs that have transformed our understanding of the uni...

Mission to Mars: A Horizon Special

Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2. billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days time, the nuclear-power...

Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing

Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 4 years that Horizon - and he - have been on air...

Blink: A Horizon Guide to the Senses

Kevin Fong looks back through 4 years of Horizon archives to explore what science has revealed about methods of perception. He discovers why babies use touch mo...

Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials

Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come to understand and manipulate the materials that built the m...

The Hunt for AI

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence. His jou...

Woof! A Horizon Guide to Dogs

Dallas Campbell looks back through the Horizon archives to find out what science can tell us about our best friend the dog, and whether new thinking should chan...

The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special

Horizon goes behind the scenes at CERN to follow one of the most epic and expensive scientific quests of all time: the search for the Higgs particle, believed t...

Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

Dallas Campbell explores how mankind's understanding of dinosaurs has developed since the 197s. He reveals how technological advances led to scientists revising...

Carrot or Stick? A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids

Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus delves into the Horizon archive to find out how science has shaped our approach to parenting and education over the last fif...

The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon

Our understanding of the world around us is better now than ever before. But are we any closer to knowing how its all going to end? Dallas Campbell delves into...

The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide

In 211, after more than years of service, America's space shuttle will take to the skies for the last time. Its story has been characterised by incredible trium...

Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special

Professor Iain Stewart examines the powerful geological forces that unleashed the devastating Japanese earthquake, and explores how the release of this power of...

What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how our understanding of intelligence has transformed over the last century. From early caveman thin...

The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

As the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science...

Diet: A Horizon Guide

Dr Susan Jebb takes a look through nearly fifty years of amazing BBC archive of mankind 's relationship with what we eat, charting the shift from the malnutriti...

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis. In his lengthy career, Sir David has...

Mars: A Horizon Guide

The intriguing possibility of life on Mars has fuelled man 's quest to visit the Red Planet. Drawing on 4 years of Horizon archive, space expert Dr Kevin Fong p...

Pandemic: A Horizon Guide

In the wake of the swine flu outbreak, virologist Dr Mike Leahy goesw back over years of BBC archives to explore the history of pandemics: waves of infectious d...

4 Years on the Moon

Professor Brian Cox takes a look through nearly years of BBC archive at the story of man's relationship with the Moon....

How Mad Are You? (2)

Second part of the special documentary considering where the line between sanity and madness lies as ten volunteers come together for an extraordinary test. Wit...

How Mad Are You? (1)

First of a two-part special. Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been officially diagnosed...

Lost Horizons: The Big Bang

Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of the greatest theories of modern scie...

Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (2)

A team of doctors conducts potentially life-saving experiments in Horizon 's' death zone' This two-part special follows a team of doctors conducting a series o...

Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (1)

A team of doctors conducts potentially life-saving experiments in Horizon 's' death zone' This two-part special follows a team of doctors conducting a series o...

First Olympians: A Horizon Special

In this documentary, Horizon reports on a skeleton was found years ago in Southern Italy. The bone structure suggests the owner was an ancient athlete....

What Sank the Kursk?

In August 2, the Russian submarine, the Kursk, sank with the loss of 118 lives. It was a tragedy which shocked the world. But to many the tragedy remains incomp...

Destination Mars

Tantalising new evidence has emerged that life could exist on Mars. But to find out for sure humans will have to journey to this dry, frozen planet....

Life on Mars

Horizon explores how the search for Martians is hotting up....

Inside the Internet

Life and Death in the 21st Century: Designer Babies

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

Life and Death in the 21st Century: Future Plagues

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

Life and Death in the 21st Century: Living Forever

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

Atlantis Reborn

This is part two of a two-part special Horizon series about Atlantis. In this episode, Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to th...

Atlantis Uncovered

This is part one of a two-part special Horizon series about Atlantis. In this episode, Horizon explores the mystery of whether Atlantis really did exist. Was th...

Fat Files: Living on Air

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this episode, Horizon looks at the eating disorders called Anore...

Fat Files: Fixing Fat

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this episode, Horizon examines the shift away from invasive diet...

Fat Files: Born to Be Fat

Horizon presents a three-part series focusing on weight-gain, dieting, and eating disorders. In this episode, there is scientific proof that we are not always i...

Longitude

In this documentary special, Horizon explores how to solve the problem of sailors being unable to pin-point their exact east-west position on the globe....

Darwin: The Legacy

Crash

This programme traces the lessons learned from a century of road fatalities. How have car makers learnt to predict the injuries their designs will inflict, and ...

Antarctica: The Ice Melts

This is part three of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explorers in the earth's final frontier, Antarctica....

Antarctica: The Ice Forms

This is part two of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explorers in the earth's final frontier, Antarctica....

Antarctica: The Ice Lives

This is part one of a three-part Horizon special about the scientists and others who became explorers in the earth's final frontier, Antarctica....

Computers Don't Bite, Inside the Internet

Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven

This is the bizarre and fascinating story of the remains of Inca culture, frozen for posterity high in the mountains of the Andes. Evidence has emerged of sacri...

Ice Mummies: A Life in Ice

In this second part of the Ice Mummies trilogy, attention turns to Ötzi, the Neolithic man plucked with an ice pick and some not inconsiderable brute force...

Ice Mummies: The Ice Maiden

Follows archeologist Natalya Polosmok as she journeys to the Altay Mountains in southern Siberia to search for traces of an ancient people known as the Pazyryk....

Molecules With Sunglasses (Update)

An update on the earlier 1992 episode, and the continuing story of the Carbon 6 molecule....

BSE: The Human Experiment

This is part two of a two-part Horizon series on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as "mad cow" disease, and how it is transmi...

BSE: The Invisible Enemy

First part of a two-part investigation into BSE. Looks into the scientific confusion and official bungling surrounding the problem, which allowed BSE to spread ...

Einstein: Fame

This is the second part of a two-part Horizon series on Albert Einstein looking at Einstein 's life and work. This program deals with the break up of his first ...

Einstein: The Miracle Year

First part of a two-part drama looking at the work and life of Albert Einstein. Mixes archival material with dramatised sequences. Looks at his turbulent privat...

Twice Born

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

th Anniversary - The Far Side

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

Assault on the Male

This Horizon special looks at the mysterious changes in wildlife that has been reported in the USA and that man's reproduction may also be adversely effected....

The Truth About Sex

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

Hide and Seek in Iraq

This documentary by Horizon reveals the disturbing discoveries made in over 4 inspections looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq....

A Close Encouter of the Second Kind

This Horizon special program explores what happened when the "Giotto" explorer spacecraft passed within 1 kilometres of Halley's Comet....

Red Star in Orbit: The Mission

This Horizon special episode is the last part of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, and engineers involved in the Soviet Union space program. In t...

Red Star in Orbit: The Dark Side of the Moon

This Horizon special episode is part two of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, and engineers involved in the Soviet Union space program....

Red Star in Orbit: The Invisible Spaceman

This Horizon special episode is part one of a three part series on the projects, cosmonauts, and engineers involved in the Soviet Union space program....

Making an Honest Fiver

This Horizon special explores the production and processes behind the scenes of the new five pound note to be launched on the 7the June, 199, in Britain. It con...

The Diary of Discovery

This Horizon special follows the 2 months preparation of the five astronauts who are to man the American space shuttle Discovery launching on the 29th of Septem...

Halley's Comet - The Encounter

Special on Halley's comet...

Halley's Comet - The Apparition

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

Twenty-First Birthday

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

Biology at War: A Plague in the Wind

This is the second part, of a two-part special series. In this episode, Horizon looks at the history of germ warfare and the research still continuing today in ...

Beyond the Moon

In this special episode, Horizon brings you a report on space exploration and exploitation. The first half of this episode looks back at the Apollo 11 moon land...

Biology at War: The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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

2 Years in Space

This Horizon special episode recalls the highlights of the past 2 years of the space age....

The Mind's Eye

This special episode of Horizon shows the latest advances in research into how the visual eyesight system of humans and animals work....

The Case of the Ancient Astronauts

In this special episode, Horizon reports on Erich von Däniken and his theories about astronauts visiting Earth long ago....

Horizon Christmas Special: Hand me my Sword, Humphrey

It is Christmas Day in the house of Hastings. The time (the 18s), the place (a suburban Victorian home), and the atmosphere (after the puddi...