Horizon (1964)

On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave. The entire city and a…

It began with a ghastly tragedy. In 1985 the massive Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, melting a glacier and sending a vast landsl…

There is a new epidemic sweeping the world. It's been silently growing over the last few decades - only now is it reaching dramatic proport…

The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest k…

In September 1991 two hikers made a sensational discovery - a frozen body high in the mountains, near the border between Austria and Italy.…

Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true. Scientists now believe there m…

In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one species of animal remained a mystery; where did birds fit on h…

The World Trade Center was built on revolutionary design principles. It turned conventional architectural and structural techniques on thei…

This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and una…

For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-…

When Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2002 it seemed like a disaster. Molten lava plunged down the h…

On 4 April 1962, James Hanratty was led from the condemned cell in Bedford Prison to the gallows. On the way he protested his innocence, as…

The England football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, believes that modern soccer matches are not won on the pitch, but inside people's minds.…

The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usuall…

Who were the first people in North America? From where did they come? How did they arrive? The prehistory of the Americas has been widely s…

Homoeopathy was pioneered over 200 years ago. Practitioners and patients are convinced it has the power to heal. Today, some of the most fa…

250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of…

In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin's great rivers. Hunting a hi…