Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

Living with Dying

A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb

No One Will Take Me Seriously

Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

Spend and Prosper

This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

A Whole New Medicine

Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

The Qualyub Project

Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.

Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

Who Will Deliver Your Baby?

A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

West of Bangalore

Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts

Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

Hello Universe!

Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

Voices from Silent Hands

In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

East of Bombay

Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

Resolution on Saturn - The Rings

Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

Resolution on Saturn - The Moons

In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

The Hunt for the Legion Killer

In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

Breaking in Children

Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

The Grid

Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

Butterflies or Barley?

Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

Science for the People

This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

The Race to Ruin

Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

Death of the Dinosaurs

Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?

The Cornucopia

Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.

A Race Against Time

Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.

Painting by Numbers

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Living with Dying

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