Horizon - 2003
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two19 Episodes
The Mystery Of Easter Island
Season 40 - Episode 1
On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outsi...
Living Nightmare
Season 40 - Episode 2
Sleeping is an essential part of everyone's life yet it remains little understood is barely understood. You might think it's a relaxing rech...
Averting Armageddon
Season 40 - Episode 3
The Earth is under constant bombardment. Each year, many fragments of debris hit our planet. Fortunately for us, most are so small that they...
Dirty Bomb
Season 40 - Episode 4
A dirty bomb is a radiological weapon but unlike a nuclear bomb, its purpose is to contaminate rather than destroy. It uses normal explosive...
Sexual Chemistry (Update)
Season 40 - Episode 5
The drug Viagra revolutionised the treatment of sexual dysfunction in men on its launch five years ago. An accidental discovery, the tablet ...
The Day We Learned To Think
Season 40 - Episode 6
Understanding of humans' earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived befor...
Trial and Error
Season 40 - Episode 7
It was the simplest idea but one with enormous potential. If a gene is defective in the human body, just replace it with one that works prop...
Earthquake Storms
Season 40 - Episode 8
Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. In the last hundred years they have claimed the lives of over on...
Life On Mars (Update)
Season 40 - Episode 9
Are we alone in the Universe? Or are there aliens somewhere in space? New evidence suggests not only might other life-forms be out there, th...
The Secret Life Of Caves
Season 40 - Episode 10
Set against the back drop of awe inspiring geological beauty, a strange scientific adventure sets out to discover how a mineral clad cave ne...
God On The Brain
Season 40 - Episode 11
Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she ...
Flight 587
Season 40 - Episode 12
265 people died when an Airbus operated by American Airlines crashed into the New York suburb of Queens in November 2001. The twin-engined j...
SARS: The True Story
Season 40 - Episode 13
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome didn't even have its name in February 2003, when it struck its first known victim, Johnny Cheng, in Hanoi,...
The Big Chill
Season 40 - Episode 14
Remember that long, hot summer? You might never see its like again. And all that talk of global warming? Forget it. This season's first Hor...
The Bible Code
Season 40 - Episode 15
This week Horizon investigates the science behind the Bible Code. What he can see is truly horrific; according to Drosnin, the world could ...
Last Flight of the Columbia
Season 40 - Episode 16
Mixing powerful and deeply moving footage with telling forensic analysis, Horizon reveals what really went wrong on the Space Shuttle Columb...
The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine
Season 40 - Episode 17
Horizon tells the microbiological detective story in which some of the best brains in science have been pitted against the most extraordinar...
Percy Pilcher's Flying Machine
Season 40 - Episode 18
Could an unknown Englishman have been the first person ever to fly? To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers inaugural flig...
Time Trip
Season 40 - Episode 19
Horizon's Time Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of cutting-edge physics - a place where beautiful, baffling ideas are s...