Horizon - 2000
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two19 Episodes
Breath of Life
Season 37 - Episode 1
In this moving film Horizon follows the Loughran family in their fight to save the life of their daughter Sheila who suffers from cystic fib...
The Lost City of Nasca
Season 37 - Episode 2
On a barren desert in South America lies one of the greatest archaeological puzzles in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa ...
The Diamond Makers
Season 37 - Episode 3
There is something so special about diamonds, and they are so valuable, that people have always been prepared to go to the most extraordinar...
Supervolcanoes
Season 37 - Episode 4
Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolca...
Miracle In Orbit
Season 37 - Episode 5
When and how did space and time begin? The birth of the Universe is one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. It has perplexed the best sci...
Complete Obsession - Body Dysmorphia
Season 37 - Episode 6
What happens when a completely healthy person wants their leg amputated? Gregg is 55 and does not feel physically whole. This is despite th...
Is GM Safe?
Season 37 - Episode 7
Some people see GM food as a ground-breaking scientific idea that could help to end world hunger and reduce global pollution. Others see it ...
Planet Hunters
Season 37 - Episode 8
If extra-terrestrials do exist they must have a home. Horizon tells the story of the race to find out where in the Universe this might be. T...
Moon Children
Season 37 - Episode 9
A handful of children around the world cannot tolerate the sun. Any exposure leads rapidly to skin cancer. They must either play indoors dur...
Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction
Season 37 - Episode 10
Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a g...
Conjoined Twins
Season 37 - Episode 11
Conjoined twins are among the rarest of human beings. There are probably fewer than a dozen adult pairs living in the world today. Only a fe...
The Lost World of Lake Vostok
Season 37 - Episode 12
It sometimes seems as if our planet has no secrets left - but deep beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet scientists have made an astonishing...
Vanished: The Plane that Disappeared
Season 37 - Episode 13
On August 2nd 1947, a British civilian version of the wartime Lancaster bomber took off from Buenos Aires airport on a scheduled flight to S...
The Secret Treasures of Zeugma
Season 37 - Episode 14
In the summer of 2000, one of the great frontier cities of the Roman Empire, the city of Zeugma, all but disappeared from the face of the Ea...
Valley of Life or Death
Season 37 - Episode 15
At the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, there is a deadly mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. There are groups of people who...
Extreme Dinosaurs
Season 37 - Episode 16
Amazing new discoveries in South America are revolutionising what we thought we knew about the dinosaur world. It now seems that South Ameri...
Supermassive Black Holes
Season 37 - Episode 17
In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest problems in cosmology - how and why...
The Boy who was Turned into a Girl
Season 37 - Episode 18
In 1965 in the Canadian town of Winnipeg, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin boys - Bruce and Brian. Six months later a bungled circumcision le...
Atlantis Reborn Again
Season 37 - Episode 19
Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to the test, dissecting his evidence for a lost civilisation. Graham Ha...