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Horizon
The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe
Tue, Oct 16, 2012
  • S50.E16
  • The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe
8.3 /10
What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
  • S50.E11
  • What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special
Bees are worth £430 million to Britain's agriculture sector and a third of UK food is reliant on pollination, but their numbers have been falling dramatically.
8.1 /10
Monitor Me
Sun, Aug 11, 2013
  • S50.E12
  • Monitor Me
Dr. Kevin Fong tries to find out if humans get better health by using modern surveillance to control sleep, food intake and medical symptoms.
7.9 /10
The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

S50.E1 ∙ The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

Wed, Mar 13, 2013
Creativity defines our species - it lies behind our music and arts, and has allowed us to journey to beyond our own planet. For a long time, it was seen as gift of the gods, beyond scientific explanation. This film finds out what really happens in your brain before you have a great idea.
7.5 /10
The Age of Big Data

S50.E4 ∙ The Age of Big Data

Wed, Apr 03, 2013
Every day we produce more data than the human race did from the dawn of civilization until the year 2000. Twitter, search engines, - these colossal databases can be mined for valuable, sometimes mind-blowing, insights. Horizon unlocks the fascinating world of big data for you.
6.9 /10
The Secret Life of the Cat

S50.E5 ∙ The Secret Life of the Cat

Wed, Jun 12, 2013
With the aim of learning what cats get up to and where they go, 50 cats in one English village are fitted with GPS tracking collars that the scientists are later able to map with some surprising results.
7.2 /10
Fracking: The New Energy Rush

S50.E7 ∙ Fracking: The New Energy Rush

Tue, Jun 18, 2013
Iain Stewart investigates a new and controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground. Getting it out of the ground involves hydraulic fracturing - or fracking.
6.8 /10
What Makes Us Human?

S50.E9 ∙ What Makes Us Human?

Tue, Jul 02, 2013
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being. She's five months pregnant. But as an anatomist, and doctor, Professor Roberts has a different perspective on her pregnancy than most mothers and she shares her scientific interest in the process with us in this special.
7.7 /10
Monitor Me

S50.E12 ∙ Monitor Me

Sun, Aug 11, 2013
Dr. Kevin Fong tries to find out if humans get better health by using modern surveillance to control sleep, food intake and medical symptoms.
7.9 /10
Defeating the Hackers

S50.E13 ∙ Defeating the Hackers

Sun, Aug 18, 2013
Horizon meets the two men who uncovered Stuxnet, the pioneers of ultra-paranoid computing, a white-hat hacker who showed out how to hack into stand alone cash machines, and explains how companies test resilience.
6.7 /10
Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life

S50.E14 ∙ Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life

Sun, Aug 25, 2013
The documentary follows paleontologist so in ground breaking efforts to extract and analyze blood cells and soft tissue from fossilized dinosaur bones.
7 /10
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The Expedition to the End of the World

The Expedition to the End of the World

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

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The Great Hack

The Great Hack

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons.

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The Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma

Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

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