https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bb33ht/horizon-2018-3-how-to-build-a-time-machine
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does learn more. In this film Horizon meets the scientists working on the cutting edge of discov...
Artificial Intelligence is starting to transform healthcare beyond recognition. The vision for tech companies is to get AI computers to diagnose diseases as well as a human doctor, which could ultimately result in accessible, more affordable, better healthcare for almost everyone.
In a world with a chronic shortage of doctors, but where even the very poor own mobile phones, it ...
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tulleken is himself. And he wants to know why.
In this sensitive film, Xand finds out what we know about why people develop suicidal thoughts, and whether there is anything that we ca...
The BBC's Horizon programme began in 1964, and since then has produced films looking at computer technology and the emergence of 'artificial intelligence'.
Our dreams always begin with ideology and optimism, only for this optimism to be replaced with suspicion that AI machines will take over. However, as the Horizon archive shows, throughout each decade once we have learnt to l...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bcmjht/horizon-2018-4-spina-bifida-me
One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. Thirty years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida herself, it is a condition she doesn't fully understand. In this programme, Ruth sets out to discover why she has it, whether it ...
We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. This affects our health as much as our diet and whether we exercise. So what can we do to manage this internal clock better?
To find out, evolutionary biologist Ella Al-Shamahi locks former commando Aldo Kane in an abandoned nuclear bunker with no way of telling the time - for ten days. Monito...
Deception is an integral part of human nature and it is estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn't lie? In a radical experiment, pioneering scientists from across Europe have come together to make this happen.
Brand new technology is allowing them to rig three British people to make it impossible for them to lie undetected. ...
A revealing and personal profile of Grammy Award–winning composer and producer David Foster, with interviews from the artists who know the music legend best, including Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, and Michael Bublé.
One of the most successful record producers and songwriters of the past half century, David Foster has worked on countless chart-topp...
Although the title would indicate this feature has a religious theme, it refers only to men between the ages of 30 and 33. Juraj (Jiri Sykora) is a recent graduate of the art institute who is uncertain about his future as a painter. His brother Andrej (Vlado Mueller) is the businessman who has the confidence his brother lacks but is troubled by his strained marriage to his wife...
A man convinced that Lucifer was within him brutally murdered his wife and child in satanic sacrifice. Now, years later, Eric, Hayley and their daughter Penny, move into the same house after being left unsold on the market. They think they got a good deal - but what they don't know is that the House on Elm Lake has for centuries been home to the servants of Lucifer and that it ...
近未来的地球黄沙遍野，小麦、秋葵等基础农作物相继因枯萎病灭绝，人类不再像从前那样仰望星空，放纵想象力和灵感的迸发，而是每日在沙尘暴的肆虐下倒数着所剩不多的光景。在家务农的前NASA宇航员库珀（马修·麦康纳 Matthew McConaughey 饰）接连在女儿墨菲（麦肯吉·弗依 Mackenzie Foy 饰）的书房发现奇怪的重力场现象，随即得知在某个未知区域内前NASA成员仍秘密进行一个拯救人类的计划。多年以前土星附近出现神秘虫洞，NASA借机将数名宇航员派遣到遥远的星系寻找适合居住的星球。在布兰德教授（迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰）的劝说下，库珀忍痛告别了女儿，和其他三名专家教授女儿艾米莉亚·布兰德（安妮·海瑟薇 Anne Hathaway 饰）、罗米利（大卫·吉雅西 David Gyasi 饰）、多伊尔（韦斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 饰）搭乘宇宙飞船前往目前已知的最有希望的三颗星球考察。 他们穿越遥远的星系银河，感受了一小时七年光阴的沧海桑田，窥见了未知星球和黑洞的壮伟与神秘。在浩瀚宇宙的绝望而孤独角落，总有一份超越了时空的笃定情怀将他们紧紧相连……
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