The CMB: A New View from the South Pole

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe. Through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised...

Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists think changes in the sun's behaviour may have...

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific...

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could...

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several...

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and...

There are endless gruesome ways that the world could end; through nasty, natural disasters or because of some man-made abomination. From maniac...

What caused Building 7 to collapse on 9/11? Dr. Leroy Hulsey from the University of Alaska Fairbanks may have the answer, following an exhausting...

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a...

The correlation between social class and school performance is a major issue across the world. This miniseries is an attempt to go beyond ideological...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans...

In 1962, spurred by the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy famously made the bold proclamation that NASA would send astronauts to the moon by the...

As society tackles the problem of feeding our expanding population safely and sustainably, a schism has arisen between scientists and consumers,...

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David...

Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories,...