Horizon (1964)
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 60
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Episode 1 - Sizewell Under Pressure
Release Date: 1983-01-10Horizon investigates if Britain should build a United States designed nuclear power station that uses a pressurized water reactor at its core.
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Episode 2 - The Tropical Time Machine
Release Date: 1983-01-17Horizon presents a report by Dr. Alison Jolly who discusses the country of Madagascar, just off of the west coast of Africa. Madagascar's ecology and conservation programs are in conflict with most third world economies.
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Episode 3 - The Geneva Event
Release Date: 1983-01-24Horizon brings you a report about the discovery of two new, and unimaginably short-lived, subatomic particles called "W" and "Z".
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Episode 4 - How Much Can You Drink?
Release Date: 1983-02-07Horizon examines some of the effects that moderate amounts of alcohol can have on the body.
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Episode 5 - Talking Turtle
Release Date: 1983-02-14In the Horizon documentary, we look new ways of using computers in classroom and to what effect computers in our schools will have in future.
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Episode 6 - What Little Girls are Made of
Release Date: 1983-02-21Horizon investigates the way girls and boys were taught science and related subjects at schools.
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Episode 7 - British Science - On the Wrong Track?
Release Date: 1983-02-28Horizon reports on the state of scientific research in Britain and the past blunders of the National Research Development Council.
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Episode 8 - The Great Plains Massacre
Release Date: 1983-03-07In this Horizon documentary, we look back at the event surrounding the near extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) in the 1880's.
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Episode 9 - Hard Rock
Release Date: 1983-03-14The Horizon episode is about the Carsington Aqueduct Scheme in Derbyshire, England, and the massive excavation problems encountered during construction.
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Episode 10 - Better Mind the Computer
Release Date: 1983-03-21Horizon presents a look at the current research into artificial computer intelligence.
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Episode 11 - Madness on Trial
Release Date: 1983-04-11Horizon looks at the mental problem of schizophrenia and how madness is medically diagnosed.
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Episode 12 - Sixty Minutes to Meltdown
Release Date: 1983-04-18In this episode, Horizon investigates the nuclear accident which took place in the United States at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant during March 1979.
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Episode 13 - Killer in the Village
Release Date: 1983-04-25In this report, Horizon looks at the spread of the AIDS virus in the United States and their search for the cause and cure of the deadly disease.
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Episode 14 - The Case of ESP
Release Date: 1983-09-26n this documentary, Horizon investigates the power of the mind for psychic phenomena; telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.
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Episode 15 - The Artificial Heart
Release Date: 1983-10-03Horizon investigates the current research into development and use of an artificial heart.
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Episode 16 - Dr. Priestley and the Breath of Life
Release Date: 1983-10-10This report by Horizon examines the experiments of Joseph Priestly on blood and oxygen in photosynthesis.
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Episode 17 - Professor Hawking's Universe
Release Date: 1983-10-17This episode of Horizon features Prof. Stephen Hawking and how he copes with his severe disability, his scientific career, and his relationship with his students.
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Episode 18 - The Cruel Choice
Release Date: 1983-10-24Horizon presents a discussion on the use of animals for experiments.
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Episode 19 - A Child's Guide to Languages
Release Date: 1983-10-31Looks at different ways of teaching a foreign language and contrasts them with the way babies and young children pick up their native language, without formal teaching.
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Episode 20 - China's Child
Release Date: 1983-11-07Horizon examines how the government of China presents the "one child per family" population policy to the people.
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Episode 21 - The Earthquake Connection
Release Date: 1983-11-14Horizon investigates today's research into earthquakes and the usefulness of the findings.
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Episode 22 - Prisoner or Patient?
Release Date: 1983-11-28Horizon presents this documentary on how Britain deals with its mentally ill criminal offenders.
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Episode 23 - Cancer: The Pattern in the Genes
Release Date: 1983-12-05In this report, Horizon outlines the latest research into cancer with specific reference to oncogenes.
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Episode 24 - The Academy
Release Date: 1983-12-12Horizon follows group of men and women going through basic training in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) methods at the Academy in the United States.