In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. 　　At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secret of making billions with maths. In South Africa, astronomers are attempting to catalogue the entire cosmos. These very different worlds are united by one thing - an extraordinary ...

Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and it is a lot more surprising than you might think. 　　There may a way to make food taste sweeter without adding any extra sugar and it is all down to a trick that happens in your brain. Horizon meets the scientist who has grown the perfect tom...

Dr Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. 　　He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and death decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fiel...

On a bright, cold morning on 15th February 2013, a meteorite ripped across the skies above the Ural mountains in Russia, distintegrating into three pieces and exploding with the force of 20 Hiroshimas. It was a stark reminder that the Earth's journey through space is fraught with danger. A day later another much larger 14,3000 tonne asteroid, passed within just 17,000 miles of ...

Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme. 　　In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country have experienced intense droughts and torrential floods. It is a pattern that appears to be playing out across the globe. Hurricane chasers are recording bigger storms and in Texas,...

Surgeon Gabriel Weston 为我们寻找变胖的真相。

Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. 　　It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. 　　This technology is already being used to m...

本部纪录片是BBC地平线系列推出的一档探讨“你是善良的还是邪恶的”为命题的纪录片。这个看似简单但却令人异常不安的问题，将由本片带你一同去寻找答案。摄制组采访了多位研究人员，他们一直在研究心理变态杀手的“邪恶”。然而并非像这些科学家预期的那样，这些在牢狱高墙背后，看似可怕的杀手就是“邪恶”的。吉姆·法伦教授一直致力于人脑中精神病迹象的研究，他发现这种标签化的定义太过主观和个人化。影片将进一步采访多位科学家，他们试图用全新的理念去重写大众心中对于道德审判下的罪与罚。 　　地平线系列纪录片是英国广播公司BBC制作的一档流行并且播放已久的科学纪录片，于1964年5月2日首播，到2013年为止已有49个系列超过1100集。本系列纪录片从历史、人文、宗教、地理、设计、艺术、生物、哲学、环保、伦理等多个方面，提供世界上最伟大科学家和哲学家一个可以交流他们看法和观点的平...

创世大爆炸之前是什么样的？答案或许在黑洞中。

本部纪录片是英国BBC地平线系列中的一部。这让我们又爱又恨的神奇液体，就是一种泛滥成灾的成瘾品——酒。戒毒专家约翰·马斯登亲身说法，从专业和个性化的角度探索我们与酒精之间的关系，用科学的观点介绍人们对酒的依赖。 　　酒精是迄今为止最为广泛使用的药物，当然也是最危险的。那么，为什么这样多的人会饮酒过量？为什么酒精会如此强大的控制着我们的神经？酒精跟基因有关么？如果青少年过早饮酒的真正危害又是什么呢……面对如此之多的疑问，约翰试图与药品设计师开发出实验药物，来取代酒精。在不久的将来，这种药物是否会取代酒精呢？

癌细胞是细胞变异产生的错误结果，一旦无法摧毁，则会分裂扩散，这是人类作为细胞生物所要承受的痛苦之一。目前有效抗癌的手段只有射线疗法，但科学家们一直在此领域上研究，并取得了一定进程。

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence. 　　His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape. 　　Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a super computer bea...

迈克尔·凯恩任制作人和旁白的纪录片《我这一代》(My Generation)被英国狮门购得，计划于明年初上映。该片由David Batty执导，在今年威尼斯电影节首映，获得观众8分钟起立鼓掌。讲述1960年代的英国的文化变革，犹以伦敦为背景，凯恩采访多名在那个年代崛起的名人，如保罗·麦卡特尼、玛芮安妮·菲丝弗、Twiggy、The Who的Roger Daltrey、玛丽·官等。

XV Beyond The Tryline takes you behind the scenes to understand what the sport of Rugby means to everyone who touches the game. With the bac kdrop and access point of the Rugby World Cup, it's a unique look at the big sport that's built around a big family of characters; from player, coach, referee, fan, groundsman, physio, parent, and even a Prince. What is it about the sport ...

作为纪念诺曼底登陆纪念日75周年的独家世界性报道，本片揭示了愚弄希特勒对计划中最隐秘的诱饵的身份：乔治六世国王

赞德冯托勒金博士是个正在寻找真爱的单身汉。数学家汉纳佛莱博士想以他为实验对象，测试交友网站用来替人们配对的算法是否真的有效。在她架设交友网站期间，赞德与研究在线约会网站的科学家们见面，学习该在他的个人档案使用哪种大头贴和自我介绍。他试用了一个能自动运作配对应用程序的机器人，并做了核磁共振检查他的脑部是否具备爱的条件。一共有五十名一般人士在约会之夜参与了小型实验，而赞德则会赴各种不同的约，测试算法是否比他自己随机挑选对象还管用。

BBC“电视史上的里程碑”，当代艺术历史最具雄心壮志的纪录片拍摄工作，由著名艺术历史学家克拉克爵士担任编剧与主持，探讨西欧文明，而爵士更在本片中界定了人类文明发展中的几个重要阶段。《文明的轨迹》历时两年才拍摄完毕，剧组跨越13个国家，曾走访百多个城市拍摄，本纪录片首年播出时更被喻为电视史上的代表作。克拉克爵士引人入胜的对白，再加上欧洲地标动人画面，带领我们探索自罗马帝国沦亡至工业革命用其后的文明发展。这种通过艺术、音乐来呈现历史观点的做法，成为日后无数纪录片看齐并努力超越的基准。 "Kenneth Clark's sumptuous,magisterial,one-man servey of the achievements of bumanistic civilisation is a TV landmark" The daily mail In ...

For centuries Egyptologists have believed that the Great Pyramids of Giza were designed as tombs. But why have no bodies or treasure ever been discovered inside the pyramids? Now, the history of the pyramids could be on the verge of being re-written. With exclusive access we follow the team as they unearth and examine the lost tombs, making the most important find in Egypt sinc...

这一次我们跟随里克·斯坦回到他的家乡康沃尔，去追寻英国桂冠诗人约翰·贝杰曼的足迹。诗人与厨师，很多不曾言语的东西，比如美食，比如诗歌，它们有着海浪和云朵的力量。

Ever since the early 1960s, Rick Stein has been in love with the blues and years later he is fascinated by the dishes ingrained in its lyrics - fried chicken and turnip greens, catfish and black-eyed peas, and the rest. In this film, Rick pays homage to the musicians who created this music and to the great dishes of the Mississippi Delta that go hand in hand with the blues.

历史学家贝特尼·休斯（Bettany Hughes）前往印度、希腊和中国，跟随古代三位哲学圣贤——佛陀乔达摩·悉达多、苏格拉底和孔子——的足迹开始了一段旅行。 　　对自然和神灵的迷信曾长时间统制人类，然而大约2500年前，三位相隔千里的哲学巨匠：释迦牟尼，苏格拉底和孔子，却不约而同的产生了颠覆性的哲思。BBC带你探寻那个时代究竟发生了什么，让人类颠覆自我认知。