Human Body: Pushing the Limits takes you across continents and introduces you to people who have pushed their bodies to the max.
This groundbreaking documentary uses CGI technology and hi-tech camera work to examine their physical ordeals in vivid detail both…

A nice BBC documentary about time travel, and not just because Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking are in it. See what scientists have to say about wormholes and the many possibilities time travel could bring.
Watch: The Time Lords

A voyage through space and time with Professor Stephen Hawking. The series charts Professor Hawking’s quest for a ‘Theory of Everything’.
This ‘holy grail’ hypothesis could explain everything from the mysteries of unimaginably vast phenomena such as supernovae, black holes and…

In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out…

Could a pterodactyl as large as a light aircraft have flown? Did millipedes once grow to six feet long? How did insects become preserved in amber for over 50 million years?
All these questions and more are answered through the study…

Horizon’s Time Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of cutting-edge physics – a place where beautiful, baffling ideas are sometimes indistinguishable from the utterly crazy. On this journey, we meet a time-travelling pizza, a brilliant mathematician in…

In 2001, scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3½ million year old fossil was remarkably complete, and unlike any previous fossil find. Its discovery – by a team led by Meave…

Is our behavior really more than a matter of animal instinct? From gorillas that use sign language to make obscene suggestions to pinheaded people who can’t use language at all, pigs who have learn to hoover and sheep who fall…

Drawing on the latest scientific findings and technology, Cracking the Colour Code is a documentary series for people who are seeking answers to many of the questions that relate to colour and who, at the same time, wish to enjoy…

Gulf War 1991: The F117A Nighthawk is the most menacing looking aircraft in the sky, also the first design to be virtually invisible, even to the most advanced and sophisticated radar system. August 1940, the skies over south-east England: For…