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Horizon: 2002

18 episodes · first aired Jan 10, 2002

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1 Helike - The Real Atlantis Jan 10, 2002 · 1h On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave. The entire city and all its inhabitants were lost beneath the sea…
2 Volcano Hell Jan 17, 2002 · 1h It began with a ghastly tragedy. In 1985 the massive Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, melting a glacier and sending a vast landslide of mud down on the people asleep in the town…
3 Fatbusters Jan 24, 2002 · 1h There is a new epidemic sweeping the world. It's been silently growing over the last few decades - only now is it reaching dramatic proportions. If current trends continue, more than one…
4 The Lost Pyramids of Caral Jan 31, 2002 · 1h The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627…
5 Death of the Iceman Feb 7, 2002 · 1h In September 1991 two hikers made a sensational discovery - a frozen body high in the mountains, near the border between Austria and Italy. It turned out to be 5,300 years old, the oldest…
6 Parallel Universes Feb 14, 2002 · 1h Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true. Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there…
7 The Dinosaur that Fooled the World Feb 21, 2002 · 1h In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one species of animal remained a mystery; where did birds fit on his evolutionary tree? Several years later his…
8 The Fall of the World Trade Center Mar 7, 2002 · 50m The World Trade Center was built on revolutionary design principles. It turned conventional architectural and structural techniques on their head. Built from a thin web of steel, its…
9 Archimedes' Secret Mar 14, 2002 · 1h This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold at…
10 The Mystery of the Jurassic Mar 28, 2002 · 1h For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the early Jurassic, 200 million years…
11 Killer Lakes Apr 4, 2002 · 1h When Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2002 it seemed like a disaster. Molten lava plunged down the hillside and poured into nearby Lake Kivu. Many…
12 The A6 Murder May 16, 2002 · 1h On 4 April 1962, James Hanratty was led from the condemned cell in Bedford Prison to the gallows. On the way he protested his innocence, as he had done every day since he had been…
13 The England Patient May 23, 2002 · 1h The England football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, believes that modern soccer matches are not won on the pitch, but inside people's minds. This film examines not just how Eriksson got…
14 Freak Wave Nov 14, 2002 · 1h The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an…
15 Stone Age Columbus Nov 21, 2002 · 1h Who were the first people in North America? From where did they come? How did they arrive? The prehistory of the Americas has been widely studied. Over 70 years a consensus became so…
16 Homeopathy: The Test Nov 26, 2002 · 1h Homoeopathy was pioneered over 200 years ago. Practitioners and patients are convinced it has the power to heal. Today, some of the most famous and influential people in the world…
17 The Day the Earth Nearly Died Dec 5, 2002 · 1h 250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that was about to come to a crashing…
18 The Secret of El Dorado Dec 19, 2002 · 1h In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin's great rivers. Hunting a hidden city of gold, his expedition found a network…