Horizon — Season 31

Aired 10 January 1994 • 60 min

Horizon brings you the international campaign to frame the laws of war by limiting the design and use of weapons aimed at "soft targets".

Aired 17 January 1994 • 60 min

This Horizon documentary explores theories about the reasons for the extinction of mammoths including those which survived on the Island of Wrangel.

Aired 24 January 1994 • 60 min

This is a Horizon episode that attempts to answer the question, "What is a mind?" and how does your brain create it? Gerald Edelman thinks he has the answer.

Aired 31 January 1994 • 60 min

Horizon brings you the story about a 13 year old girl who had lived most of her life tied up in the back room of her parent's house since the time she was born.

Aired 7 February 1994 • 60 min

In this report by Horizon, we look at a type of cancer which cured itself. The cancer cells were killing themselves and finding out why may revolutionize future cancer treatment.

Aired 14 February 1994 • 60 min

Horizon reports on a team investigating the mysterious disappearance of an airliner in 1992 that was flying over the Panamanian jungle.

Aired 28 February 1994 • 60 min

In this documentary, Horizon tries to answer the question if "Star Wars" technology could be used to destroy meteors big enough to threaten life on earth.

Aired 7 March 1994 • 60 min

This Horizon episode follows the rescue and repair mission carried out by the shuttle astronauts on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Aired 14 March 1994 • 60 min

Horizon explores scientific discoveries made in extraordinary ways.

Aired 21 March 1994 • 60 min

Horizon examines the continuing, bitter controversy over the claim that nuclear fusion has been produced in a test tube.

Aired 28 March 1994 • 60 min

In this episode, Horizon presents Professor Sir Walter Bodmer who searches for a new history of Britain, one that is written in their genes.

Aired 18 April 1994 • 60 min

This episode of Horizon investigates the flooding of the Mississippi river in the USA and a massive flood in Bangladesh.

Aired 25 April 1994 • 60 min

Horizon explores how the demands of a 24-hour culture pushes people too far and the many accidents caused by fatigue.

Aired 9 May 1994 • 60 min

This Horizon documentary investigates newly discovered documents in Moscow from 1945 about German concentration camps.

Aired 16 May 1994 • 60 min

Horizon reports on a new discovery where stomach ulcers caused by Bacterium Helicobacter Pylori are treatable with antibiotics.

Aired 7 November 1994 • 60 min

Horizon investigates how mankind is now polluting the world's oceans with extreme noise caused by many sources such explosions and super tankers.

Aired 14 November 1994 • 60 min

Horizon explores the creative process that caused ripples in the universe after the "Big Bang". Three teams of scientists attempt practical experiments to test abstract theories of cosmology.

Aired 21 November 1994 • 60 min

Horizon presents a documentary on the Partula, a Polynesian tree snail.

Aired 28 November 1994 • 60 min

Horizon investigates some alleged reports of alien abductions.

Aired 12 December 1994 • 60 min

Horizon presents a documentary on Synaesthesia which is an unusual disorder of perception in which barriers between the senses dissolve.

Aired 19 December 1994 • 60 min

Horizon brings you Reports from Europe, America, and Australia on how wine making differs and asks whether the traditional and troubled European wine industry will have to change its methods to compete with those wines from the new world.