Home > Documentary > Horizon >

Season 23

AD:This title is currently not available on Prime Video

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

Horizon Season 23

January. 06,1986
|
8.6
|
TV-PG
| Documentary
Watch on Prime Video

With 30 Day Free Trial!

Stream Now
AD:This title is currently not available on Prime Video

Horizon

1964  / TV-PG

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

READ MORE
Genres
Watch on Prime Video

With 30 Day Free Trial!

Stream Now

Horizon Season 23 Full Episode Guide

Episode 23 - Doctors to Be
Episode 22 - Battered Baby: Breaking the Chain
Episode 21 - Battered Baby: From Generation to Generation
Episode 19 - Who Built Stonehenge?
First Aired: June. 09,1986

Horizon presents an interview with Prof. C. Renfrew as he questions the accepted wisdom about the origins of Stonehenge in England.

Episode 18 - Uranus Encounter
First Aired: May. 26,1986

In this episode, Horizon brings you Voyager's encounter with Uranus and the mysteries that are being relayed back to the scientists.

Episode 17 - A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
Episode 16 - What Makes an Animal Smart?
First Aired: May. 12,1986

This report by Horizon takes a look at the instinctive side of intelligence in animals that shows us that we owe more to instinct than we may care to think.

Episode 15 - Twice Five Plus the Wings of a Bird
Episode 14 - The Men Who Bottled a Cow
First Aired: April. 21,1986

This is an interesting Horizon presentation on decoys that look and smell like cows to the tsetse fly who carry a disease fatal to farm animals.

Episode 13 - Nice Guys Finish First
First Aired: April. 14,1986

In the interview by Horizon, Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favours co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.

Episode 12 - The Case of the Frozen Addict
First Aired: April. 07,1986

In this documentary, Horizon reports on how doctors in America found that addicts using designer drugs developed Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms.

Episode 11 - AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus
First Aired: March. 24,1986

Horizon looks at the virus that causes AIDS and the research into vaccines and drugs being developed to counteract the devastating disease of the immune system.

Episode 10 - In the Wake of HMS Sheffield
First Aired: March. 17,1986

Will the new strategies and weapons introduced because of the Falklands war be a match for the next generation of weapons? Horizon presents this documentary to answer that question.

Episode 9 - Hi-Tech à la Française
First Aired: March. 10,1986

Horizon investigates the remarkable technological transformation of France over the last 25 years.

Episode 8 - The New Face of Leprosy
First Aired: March. 03,1986

This episode of Horizon documents leprosy in the USA and India with a focus on medical developments for it's cure and control.

Episode 7 - The Children of Eve
Episode 6 - Science...Fiction?
Episode 5 - Outbreak: The Microbe Masters the Mould
First Aired: February. 03,1986

In this episode, Horizon explores the question of when antibiotics were first developed it seemed infectious disease might be eliminated, so what has gone wrong?

Episode 4 - The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe
Episode 3 - Bitter Cold
First Aired: January. 20,1986

Horizon presents a documentary on scientists who take themselves to Antarctica in 1980 to act as physical and mental guinea pigs.

Episode 2 - Genesis
First Aired: January. 13,1986

This Horizon episode is about the discovery of a molecular key which may literally unlock the mystery of life for all creatures.

Episode 1 - Are You a Racist?
First Aired: January. 06,1986

Horizon presents a documentary about how white racists and black victims of racism volunteered to spend time in an isolated house living and talking about their prejudices.

Free Trial Channels
AD

Show More

Seasons

Similar titles