Horizon

1981

27 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 1981

Where to watch Horizon

  1. E1 Spend and Prosper

    Jan 5, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a portrait of the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge Don, and Bloomsbury intellectual.

  2. E2 A Whole New Medicine

    Jan 12, 1981 · 1h

    This episode of Horizon is about holistic medicine, health for the whole person, which uses unorthodox therapies.

  3. E3 The Qualyub Project

    Jan 19, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon explores the research of Egyptian doctors in trying to control bilharzia, a disease caused by parasitic worms.

  4. E4 No One Will Take Me Seriously

    Jan 26, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon investigates the reports about a number of scientists who do not conform to contemporary scientific theories.

  5. E5 Living with Dying

    Feb 2, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon investigates the care given to the terminally ill by hospices.

  6. E6 A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb

    Feb 9, 1981 · 1h

    In this episode, Horizon presents a portrait of Dr. Edward Teller, whose opinions about nuclear war are highly controversial.

  7. E7 Who Will Deliver Your Baby?

    Feb 16, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon reports on the changing role of the community midwife in Britain as more births take place in hospital.

  8. E8 West of Bangalore

    Mar 2, 1981 · 1h

    A group of scientists are trying to solve public utility problems in Mysore, India.

  9. E9 Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts

    Mar 9, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon examines the design of Formula One racing cars with a particular reference to the aerodynamic 'skirt'.

  10. E10 Hello Universe!

    Mar 16, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon explores probabilities of whether we have any intelligent neighbors in space.

  11. E11 Voices from Silent Hands

    Mar 23, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a documentary on deaf children and their struggle to learn the sign language.

  12. E12 Did Darwin Get It Wrong?

    Mar 30, 1981 · 1h

    In this episode, Horizon explores the new evolutionary theory that there are sudden, vs. gradual, evolutionary changes from one species to another.

  13. E13 East of Bombay

    Apr 6, 1981 · 1h

    This show is a Horizon documentary about the training by two doctors from India, Rajnikant and Mabelle Arole, who are trying to combat the curable diseases. These diseases are common killers in Indian communities. Also, a report on Salubai, one of these native health workers and her work at Kamkhed in Western India.

  14. E14 Resolution on Saturn - The Rings

    Apr 11, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

  15. E15 Resolution on Saturn - The Moons

    Apr 13, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents the second episode of a two part documentary on NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft and the data it has sent back from the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

  16. E16 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

    Sep 28, 1981 · 1h

    In this documentary on nuclear energy, Horizon looks at three experts with regard to the prospect of a nuclear power station sited for construction near where they live.

  17. E17 The Hunt for the Legion Killer

    Oct 5, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon investigates Legionnaires disease and the research being carried out in the USA to try find a cause and cure.

  18. E18 Breaking in Children

    Oct 12, 1981 · 1h

    In this story, Horizon follows the efforts of two mothers who attempt gain control over their very disobedient children.

  19. E19 The Grid

    Oct 19, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a followup episode of Gentlemen, Lift Up Your Skirts, covering the Formula One racing season while investigating the way the William's racing team fought the fierce competition of the French and Italian racings teams by finding ways around new rulings to make their cars first on the grid.

  20. E20 Butterflies or Barley?

    Oct 26, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon reports on the conflict between the farmers and the conservationists over the English countryside.

  21. E21 Science for the People

    Nov 2, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a two part documentary looking at the science and technology inside the Soviet Union. In this episode, we look at why the Russians might need to import a chemical processing plant from the UK and computers from the USA when they have a quarter of the world's scientists and still give science and research the highest priority.

  22. E22 The Race to Ruin

    Nov 9, 1981 · 1h

    This is the second part of the Horizon documentary on the Soviet Union. In this report, we examine the basis for the space arms race between USA and USSR. Are the US efforts for the extensive space defense system to match the Russians based on a misconception of the USSR war effort from space?

  23. E23 Death of the Dinosaurs

    Nov 16, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon investigates theories about the mystery of why the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

  24. E24 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    Nov 23, 1981 · 1h

    Richard Feymann was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers or the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965. In this documentary he talks about his motivations to be a scientist and a teacher of science.

  25. E25 The Cornucopia

    Nov 30, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon explores the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC that produces mountains of food. We look at the position which many European farmers occupy in western European economies which leads to the creation of overproduction of agricultural products. Do they need to reform the policy?

  26. E26 A Race Against Time

    Dec 7, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon reports on the efforts of the British Advanced Passenger Train (APT) engineering team trying to prepare the new APT for its first run.

  27. E27 Painting by Numbers

    Dec 21, 1981 · 1h

    Horizon presents a documentary on the advances of computer graphics and its multiple uses in simulating reality in industry and science. It looks at the manipulation of 3-D images to paint, animate, design, and test scientific hypothesis.