Horizon (1964)

In this moving film Horizon follows the Loughran family in their fight to save the life of their daughter Sheila who suffers from cystic fi…

On a barren desert in South America lies one of the greatest archaeological puzzles in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa…

There is something so special about diamonds, and they are so valuable, that people have always been prepared to go to the most extraordina…

Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolc…

When and how did space and time begin? The birth of the Universe is one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. It has perplexed the best sc…

What happens when a completely healthy person wants their leg amputated? Gregg is 55 and does not feel physically whole. This is despite th…

Some people see GM food as a ground-breaking scientific idea that could help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution. Others see it…

If extra-terrestrials do exist they must have a home. Horizon tells the story of the race to find out where in the Universe this might be.…

A handful of children around the world cannot tolerate the sun. Any exposure leads rapidly to skin cancer. They must either play indoors du…

Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a…

Conjoined twins are among the rarest of human beings. There are probably fewer than a dozen adult pairs living in the world today. Only a f…

It sometimes seems as if our planet has no secrets left - but deep beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet scientists have made an astonishin…

On August 2nd 1947, a British civilian version of the wartime Lancaster bomber took off from Buenos Aires airport on a scheduled flight to…

In the summer of 2000, one of the great frontier cities of the Roman Empire, the city of Zeugma, all but disappeared from the face of the E…

At the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, there is a deadly mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. There are groups of people wh…

Amazing new discoveries in South America are revolutionising what we thought we knew about the dinosaur world. It now seems that South Amer…

In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest problems in cosmology - how and wh…

In 1965 in the Canadian town of Winnipeg, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin boys - Bruce and Brian. Six months later a bungled circumcision l…

Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to the test, dissecting his evidence for a lost civilisation. Graham Ha…