Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. 　　Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...

Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history. 　　Now, o...

Examines the once a year phenomenon when the Californian squid come in their millions to mate in the shallow waters around the Californian coast. Their predators are, of course, well aware of this meeting. For many years, biologist Phil Sammet has been observing the Californian squid and has made some surprising discoveries.

简介：福克兰群岛是英国海外领土，这里仅有三千多名居民，还有数以万计的企鹅，是名副其实的企鹅天堂。本集带你走近这片企鹅乐土，一窥其备受争议的历史，领略群岛与世隔绝的独特风韵。

The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

伯特斯特恩輝煌的生涯始於Look雜誌的收發室，在那裏他和同公司的攝影師變成了好友，那位攝影師就是史丹利庫柏力克。遇上了廣告業的黃金年代，再加上庫柏力克的幫助，伯特斯特恩在25歲就成了知名的廣告攝影師，受到好萊塢、麥迪遜大道和國際時尚品牌競相邀約的對象，本片揭開這位廣告紅人的崛起與衰落。

本片深入了解四位居住在纽约的男性转变为女性的变性人复杂又迷人的生活。从模特到音乐家，从时尚总监到心理咨询师，甚至三陪，每位变性人都面临着各种各样的个人问题——身份、性、爱情、手术、职业以及歧视。变性人注定是这些怪胎，或者就是不服从、言辞差、没谋略、毫无是处甚至是破碎的人吗？这部纪录片是关于重塑自我和克服重重困难的真实故事，是关于人的精神与希望的能力。而这些勇敢且坚定的女性将无所畏惧地挑战现状，追求他们的美国梦。

玛丽·罗斯是英国考古学的标志，是都铎王朝的完美典ccc。真的是这样吗？这艘船在1982年被打捞出来，它告诉了我们很多关于都铎王朝英格兰的事情。现在，一项对1545年7月遇难者遗骸的开创性研究，一定会再次改变这个故事。一个精锐团队正在运用尖端科学来寻找新的证据，以揭示船员的确切位置，以及他们真正的样子。研究结果将改变我们对都铎时期英国白人的看法。

法国最著名哥特式建筑、法兰西最重要的文化遗产之一巴黎圣母院于2019年4月遭遇了百年难得一遇之大火，整个教堂顶几乎被大火摧毁，随后法国政府承诺将在五年内完成巴黎圣母院在此次大火后的的修复工作。 大火后的一年，由BBC拍摄制作了此纪录片，与参与巴黎圣母院修复的建筑师、玻璃修复师、文物保护专家、木匠以及诸多科学家一起，探寻巴黎圣母院修复这一庞大艰难而耗时的工程，及其背后的科学。

近年英國氣候越發極端，颶風頻頻來襲，2013年冬天更錄得有史以來最高的降雨量。超強寒流的來襲，亦曾令英國以往的冬天錄得攝氏零下22度的低溫。 　　英國廣播公司（BBC）科學紀錄片《地平線》（Horizon）系列的《天氣反常了？》，由物理學家Helen Czerski和氣象學家  John Hammond主持，為你詳細講解高速氣流（jet stream）與英國反常氣候的關係。

Changes to the bacteria that live inside all of us are responsible for increasing the number of people with allergies, suggests new research. 　　In this episode of Horizon, the show investigates this claim by conducting a unique experiment with two allergic families in order to find out just what it is in the modern world that is to blame. With a raft of mini cameras, GPS units an...

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 ...

历代科学家都在被“宇宙中的万物到底从何而来”和“宇宙是如何诞生的”的这两大难题所困扰。近一百年，我们似乎找到了答案：宇宙是在过去有限的时间之前，由一个密度极大且温度极高的太初状态演变而来的，并经过不断的膨胀与繁衍到达今天的状态。由此宇宙大爆炸一说，得到了当今科学研究和观测最广泛且最精确的支持。 　　然而这一等同于科学事实的理论，却遭到一些科学家的质疑。他们相信大爆炸并不是宇宙真正的开始，我们的宇宙在此之前就可能有过生命迹象。这个可能会严重影响、甚至颠覆当今宇宙学支柱的理论，到底成立与否？就让我们共赴此次未知的极限之旅，去探索这个令人眼花缭乱的深奥谜团——宇宙大爆炸之前，到底发生了什么。

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...