Horizon (1964)

Profile of the snake, which presents a close-up look at how it kills and digests it's prey. Also shows how snake venom could be used in the…

An examination of computer-based communication aids for the severely speech impaired. Follows the trip to America of Dick Boydell, a cerebr…

Documentary which looks at the wildlife of Pleasant Bay in New England marshland s of the Eastern USA, and their habitat.

Horizon explores what might happen when fossil fuel sources are depleted.

Horizon documents how every one of us is owned and operated by other individuals; by hordes of hidden organisms.

Documentary on the first recorded instance of genetic engineering being carried out on a human, when in 1980, Dr. Martin Cline from Los Ang…

Documentary which looks at the way in which disease in the world fights back against modern scientific methods of controlling it, looking a…

An examination of the use of Depo-Provera in the Third World. The contraceptive is injected and prevents pregnancy for three months, but it…

Documentary which looks at the psychological effects of kidnapping and imprisonment on the victims,based on the psychological characteristi…

Examines the prospects for Japanese economic supremacy in the 1990s and asks whether Japan will be able to compete in the development of ne…

Documentary which looks at the boom in private medicine in GB and at the effects of this on the National Health Service in the country.

Documentary which looks at the outbreak of a new disease in Spain in 1981 which has affected 17,000 people, killing 300, and the confusion…

Documentary which shows the human reproductive cycle from conception to birth, through the use of microscopic cameras within the human body.

Documentary which looks at the phenomenon of the Unidentified Flying Object and the possible explanations behind their sighting and observa…

Documentary about acid rain. The effects of various forms of pollution caused by processes of everyday life, including the contamination of…

A look at current research into the causes and effects of divorce in the Western world.

Documentary which looks at the great advances in the performance of ante-natal operations on the human foetus and the implications of these…

Oxford moral philosopher Jonathan Glover introduces some of the new developments in genetic engineering, looks at the future possibilities…

An informal portrait of Prof. Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London, and in Kent. He discusses what makes a good surgeon; how he tea…

Traces the evolution of the helicopter, using rare archive footage of early pioneering flights. Also examines the latest research within th…

Documentary on the discussions at the second UN Environment Conference,in London in 1982,illustrating the points made in the debates on the…

Documentary about the little known Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed t…