The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...
Luminous beings, creatures with their own internal light, enchant and astonish us. Anyone who has seen a firefly or a glow-worm cannot help but fall under their spell. The sea at night sparkles as millions of luminous plankton reveal the shapes of dolphins in a truly magical light show. But why do animals produce living light? For centuries we could only marvel at the beauty an...
Horizon looks at dark energy - the mysterious force that is unexpectedly causing the universe's expansion to speed up. The effects of dark energy were discovered in 1998 but physicists still don't know what it is. Worse, its very existence calls into question Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - the cornerstone of modern physics. The hunt for the identity of dark en...
探索变性的真正意义，通过那些亲身经历过的人，探索跨性别者所经历的生理以及心理变化。
我们做的锻炼大部分是无效的？运动能消耗多少卡路里？去除脂肪的最佳方法是什么？一周只锻炼三分钟就够了？久坐真的是健康杀手吗？Michael Mosley通过亲身实践，得出了一些关于锻炼的惊人真相，帮助人们走出误区，获得健康长寿。
62% 的英国人体重超重，这一数字还在上升。遗传学家 Giles Yeo 博士纠正对肥胖的偏见和减肥的误区，讲述饮食和体重的关系，介绍最新的减肥医学技术。
The Ebola virus. No-one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain - it's one of the most virulent infections known to science. This special episode of Horizon meets the scientists and doctors from all around the world looking for the cure and hears first-hand accounts of what it's actually like to catch - and survive - this terrible disease.
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history. Now, o...
Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme. In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country have experienced intense droughts and torrential floods. It is a pattern that appears to be playing out across the globe. Hurricane chasers are recording bigger storms and in Texas,...
2013年2月28日，佛罗里达坦帕市东郊住宅区，正在熟睡中的杰夫·布什和他的卧室突然消失得无影无踪。可怕的是，他消失前毫无征兆，杰夫从此杳无音信。他被陷穴吞没了。那么，陷穴是如何形成的？对于陷穴我们能做些什么？在这个不可思议的地理侦探故事片中，伊恩·斯图尔特博士发掘了地球几百万年的历史，以寻找这些问题的答案，并追问是否会有更多陷穴在我们身边出现。
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently. New research suggests that the connections in men and women's brains follow different patterns, patterns which may explain typical forms of male and female behaviour. But are these patterns innate, or are they shaped by the world around us? Using a team of human lab...
在人類出現以前，地球是巨獸的天下。這個讓人大開眼界的特別節目，要為觀眾細數曾經出現在世上體型最大的動物，同時揭露這些超大物種不為人知的祕密生活。從翼展和飛機一樣長的大鳥，到體型和一架波音737噴射客機不相上下的恐龍，這部大量使用電腦動畫的特別節目，要尋找這些巨獸背後的真相，列舉其中最大的十種和最驚人的發現。從帶領觀眾見識最近才剛出土、體型大過先前所有恐龍的恐龍骨頭，到分析七公尺巨鳥的飛行技術，揭開讓這些動物在世上興盛繁衍的特殊適應技能。本節目使用視覺特效和讓人嘖嘖稱奇的尺寸比較，鮮活、生動地呈現這些讓人屏息的巨獸。
This is the true-crime story of the multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a then, twenty-six year old Larry Lavin and two of his classmates. In the high-flying 1980's, Larry Lavin was a clean-cut, Ivy-League-educated dentist living the good life in suburban Philadelphia. But, what his upper crust neighbours didn't know was that Lavin led a double life - one that would fin...
The 'Mighty Eighth Air Force' tilted the balance for the Allies during World War II. This is the story of how they did it, using rare archival footage and dramatic eye-witness accounts of the airmen and the commanders themselves.
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances, Mosley is a pessimist who constantly frets about the future. He wants to worry less and become more of an optimist. He tries out two techniques to change this aspect of his personality - with surprising results. And he travels to the frontie...
Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. This film follows the men and women who are pushing the limits of science and engineering in some of the most ...
一座金字塔中的發現讓考古學家開始尋找有關努比亞王國的線索。這不是普通的考古挖掘作業，因為這座金字塔被水淹沒了。考古學家要首度潛入這座水底金字塔，讓我們更了解古老的努比亞王國。
Even the biggest and fiercest predators start out as baby sharks.
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.
本部纪录片是英国BBC地平线系列中的一部。这让我们又爱又恨的神奇液体，就是一种泛滥成灾的成瘾品——酒。戒毒专家约翰·马斯登亲身说法，从专业和个性化的角度探索我们与酒精之间的关系，用科学的观点介绍人们对酒的依赖。 酒精是迄今为止最为广泛使用的药物，当然也是最危险的。那么，为什么这样多的人会饮酒过量？为什么酒精会如此强大的控制着我们的神经？酒精跟基因有关么？如果青少年过早饮酒的真正危害又是什么呢……面对如此之多的疑问，约翰试图与药品设计师开发出实验药物，来取代酒精。在不久的将来，这种药物是否会取代酒精呢？
Surgeon Gabriel Weston 为我们寻找变胖的真相。
第一部纪录Raf Simons 入主巴黎老牌时装屋Christian Dior 迪奥的纪录片将于4月17日Tribeca Film Festival 翠贝卡电影节期间作全球首映，并参与Tribeca 翠贝卡世界纪录片竞赛单元。 名为《Dior et moi（英译Dior and I，中译Dior 与我）》的纪录电影追踪了Raf Simons 加盟Christian Dior 迪奥后创造首个高级定制系列的全过程。由Frédéric Tcheng 执导的该片让外界得以窥视一个时装系列诞生的背后，一群热忱、迷人和幽默的协作者之间对工作的真挚投入，是对高级时装屋作坊中的裁缝们的生动致敬。
The biggest tech revolution of the 21st Century isn't digital, it's biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR's far-reaching implications, through the eyes of ...
