Episode 1
Sudden Death
1h
Documentary considering the nature of sudden death, the effects of coronary heart disease and the part they play.
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TV series
Horizon
1964TV-PG62 seasons7.4 / 10
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
Horizon premiered February 4, 1964. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
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Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Season 28 episodes
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Episode 2
Keen as Mustard
1h
This Horizon episode tells the story of the top secret experiments carried out to test the effects of mustard gas.
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Smokers Can Harm Your Health
1h
Horizon investigates the case against passive smoking and reveals new evidence of its danger.
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Coming In from the Cold
1h
Horizon reports on the new arms verification industry emerging due to the new arms control treaties.
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Small Problems with the Mirror
1h
Horizon follows astronomer's efforts to rescue the Hubble space telescope and restore its original planned performance.
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Two Weeks to Save the Earth
1h
Looks at the work of Earthwatch, and some of the many people who spend their holidays contributing to learning about the planet by helping on prehistoric digs, recording fish noises, tracking rodents, measuring grass an leaves and counting insects in places all over the world, often suffering much discomfort and boredom.
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California Dreaming
1h
This Horizon documentary presents the US auto industry's response to clean-up the air in Los Angeles, California by the year 2007.
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The Day the Earth Melted
1h
This episode of Horizon examines 20 years of research which has led to a new theory on how the earth's crust was made.
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The Curse of Karash
1h
Looks at the phenomenon of the outbreaks of a lethal kidney disease amongst groups of people scattered around an area of the Balkans, covering Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, over the past 30 years.It considers the attempts and theories of scientists from all these countries over the years to find the cause of the disease.
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Playing at Noah
1h
This Horizon interview presents Dr. Ulysses Seal who believes the "frozen zoo" concept is the best way to save vanishing species for the future generations.
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Cashing in on Paradise
1h
This Horizon episode considers the pros and cons of "ecotourism" and the effects of tourism on the environment. The coral reefs of areas of Belize are suffering already from the effects tourists coming to the area. Rain forests and ape sanctuary areas employing the local community are also becoming a danger to the delicate environments.
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The Terracotta Time Machine
1h
This episode of Horizon explores the Natural History Museum and its philosophy, both past and present. We look at some of the recent innovations that have been introduced in the past few years. The recent director of the museum, Dr. Neil Chalmers, justifies his policies, restructuring, and the academics. The scientists, who are adversely affected by the policies, air their own worries and concerns.
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Measuring the Roof of the World
1h
Horizon examines the problems and cartography involved in mapping mountains such as Mount Everest. They follow the history of of mapping from those surveys conducted by mountaineering expeditions and early explorers, to modern mapping techniques using planes and satellites. Horizon also considers the startling news that K2 may actually be the world's tallest mountain according to recent satellite calculations.
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The First Americans
1h
Horizon looks at archaeologist's new theories surrounding the population of the New World over 11,000 years ago
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Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus
1h
Documentary following the clean-up operation at Chernobyl and the elite team of Soviet scientists working in areas of radiation that would be considered lethal in the West, whilst they hunt for missing fuel, uranium and plutonium, anxious that these could cause a second accident.
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Colonising Cyberspace
1h
Horizon presents a documentary on how virtual reality can make humans feel as if they are present in the computer simulated artificial world. What is the future of all this powerful, seductive technology?
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Emerging Viruses
1h
In this report, Horizon follows a group of eminent scientists who believe we have become too complacent about infectious diseases.
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Camelford - A Bitter Aftertaste
1h
Horizon explores the Camelford disaster, in which aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to drinking water in Cornwall in 1988.
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Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes
1h
Several astronomers and scientists explore the concepts of "hot/cold dark space" and whether or not the "Big Bang" theory is actually correct, as well as considering the structures of galaxies.
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Food For Thought
1h
This story by Horizon looks at the expanding and controversial area of "smart drugs".
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The Long Road to the West
1h
In this Horizon episode, we look at the problems facing the Carl Zeiss optics company of Jena and other companies in the scientific sector of the former Eastern block countries. Following the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War, harsh economic conditions and the lack of scientific progress over the preceding decades in particular are explored.
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Half Hearted About Semi-Skimmed
1h
Horizon examines the social and scientific issues around the cholesterol debate.
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T-Rex Exposed
1hfinale
Considers some of the different theories surrounding the Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur, and other members of the same family, and shows how calculations about size, speed, weight, etc. are made from skeletons, some of them recently discovered in Montana. Scientists also use the latest x-ray/scanning techniques to examine skulls and bones for information.
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Cast
Richard Branson
Nicholas SoamesBob Brier
Robert Winston
Robert GalloTrevor R. Bryce
Joshua Wurman
Bill PatersonProduction details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 1,173
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC TwoUnited Kingdom
Themes
philosophyscience