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- An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
- A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
- Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
- With its 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), the mountain Everest is the place where thousands of persons go every year to try climbing it. From what Edmund Hillary prevailed over the mountain and reached the top in May 29, 1953, much people has tried to repeat the miracle, and every day more of a hundred climbers have been there in some camps, waiting his glory moment. Some of them explain their histories with the Everest, in a pride, friendship and sacrifice tale to reach the top and win over the nature.
- We follow a family from dawn to dusk as they go about their daily routines. But this is no ordinary story. This is the tale of what takes place beneath the skin-a tale that allows us to see the accomplishments of our everyday lives.
- Take a thrilling ride right into the heart of the planet's most amazing forces - revealing the speed of a twister, the power of a hurricane, the lethal force of a lightning bolt, the instant devastation of a flood, or the explosive punch of a volcano. Feel what it's like to be inside a house when a storm rips the roof off, when a cloud of volcanic ash overtakes you, or what a street sign picked up by a tornado would do to your car window. This is Nature at its wildest and most furious.
- A documentary film about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
- An unusual star is claimed to have appeared in the sky at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. This movie is an investigation into the story found in the Biblical Gospel of Matthew about this Star of Bethlehem. It includes the words of Roman and Jewish historians alongside those of ancient prophets. Come learn about this ancient mystery and draw your own conclusions. If clear, see the stars over Vestal and other celestial objects.
- In 1829, the Rainhill Locomotive Trials were held near Liverpool to test various designs of passenger railway locomotive for pulling trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that was being constructed. George and Robert Stephenson's "Rocket" won the contest. Anthony Burton tells the story of the contest. To commemorate the 150-year anniversary of the trials, engineers build replicas of three of the designs from the competition and stage their own trials in Hyde Park, London.
- Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he applies a blend of wit and wisdom, animation, graphics, and gleeful nerdery to the joys of chance and the mysteries of probability. It is a vital branch of mathematics that tells us what might happen in the future based on the events of the past.
- The introduction of world trade in Tudor England inadvertently introduces foreign poisonous substances. One such case is sugar and the subsequent rotting of teeth.
- An interactive reworking of Frankenstein. The world is ravaged by a virus causing heart failure. With a shortage of donor hearts scientists race to supply new organs. But they will only grow inside a living organism; a part human organism.
- The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are annual lectures by the Royal Institution presenting scientific subjects the general public in an entertaining manner (since 1825), this series was broadcast by BBC Two from 1966-1999.
- The giants of the Jurassic period are among the best known of all dinosaurs: from the bird-like Archaeoptyrx and mega-carnivore Allosaurus, to the armored Stegasaurs and Triceratops.
- On National Achievement Day, the lives of a detective, a shopkeeper, a garage attendant, a barmaid, a dog and two mice interconnect. Their conversation provokes self-reflection, stirring up memories that evoke longings and regrets.
- David Lander reports on a new British weapon system that doesn't work, costs hundreds of millions, sinks the wrong ships and lands in people's back garden.
- follow the connections from the battle of Hastings in 1066, through the use of gunpowder, the invention of cannon, water pumps, barometers, the telephone, and radio telescopes.
- The Wheel of Fortune, traces connections from astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts, to the modern production line.
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- In Victorian times 'computers' were people who added up rows of figures. Now they are mechanical wonders - without them we couldn't fly planes, drive cars or even run our dishwashers. We need them, but will they ever get smart enough to take over? Jeremy tells the remarkable story of the computer's evolution from man with pencil to android with sub-machine gun. It's an epic spanning three centuries, a tale of passion, espionage and suicide - and it's far from over. Jeremy discovers that the threat from computers lies not with Schwarzenegger's Terminator but from a much more devastating computer - Armageddon. The computer might yet change the world in a way that none of us are expecting.
- Griff Rhys Jones follows the mighty Severn and its neighbour, the Wye. He also attempts to bog snorkel, meets druids for a ritual water blessing and sleeps in a hermit's cave.
- Tony Robinson and his time team travel to Derwentcote near Newcastle in England. They have three days to investigate the ruins of an iron and steel works that produced world class metal from the early 1700's to the 1850's Their interest is based on the number of different processes developed in the area during the time, culminating in evidence the site was much older than first thought
- If you have ever wondered if you see the same thing as the next person this episode of Horizon will help put your mind at rest. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colors you see may not always be the same as the colors I see. Your age, sex and even mood can affect how you experience colors.
- On its 25th anniversary, Horizon looks back over its past films, some of which have had a profound affect on the scientific world.
- As American naval forces hand Japan defeat after defeat Japan turns in desperation to the Kamikaze. The tactic proves effective against smaller ships but does not fails to sink a major vessel. Japan turns to an rocket propelled human guided bomb known as the Ohka and a torpedo know as the Kaiten. German considers a Kamikaze version of the V-1 rocket and later employs Kamikaze fighter attacks on Allied bombers.