BBC 电子游戏自诞生之日起，媒体与学界对其进行的争论就从未停息。有人说它使人成瘾，有人说它让人变得暴力……然而这些都是真的吗？电子游戏真的有那么坏吗？《地平线》将带你回顾三十年来学界对其进行的各项研究，从科学角度阐释电子游戏对人脑产生的影响，以及它可能为我们带来的益处。

In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem of satellites mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from astronauts and experts, Horizon reveals the scale of the problem of space junk. Our planet is surrounded by hundreds of millions of pieces of junk moving at 17,000 miles...

Most of us think that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is just over fussy tidying. But it's actually much more serious. Sophie has to check that she hasn't killed people, looking for dead bodies wherever she goes, Richard is terrified of touching the bin, and Nanda is about to have pioneering brain surgery to stop her worrying about components on her body - that her eyebrow ...

人为什么会笑？笑的本质是什么？笑声在社交中有什么作用？大脑能分辨真笑和假笑吗？存在全世界通行的喜剧吗？

BBC气象员彼得?吉布斯冲动地回到了他曾经生活和工作过的英国南极调查局哈雷研究站。当时，哈雷研究站在臭氧空洞的发现中起到了重要作用，而今天，它仍然在诸多领域作出了许多重要的发现，例如：人类生活如何受到太阳活动的影响、星际旅行研究、以及人类导致的气候变化所产生的威胁等。彼得此行还肩负着救援的使命，由于冰山移动，哈雷研究站可能会随着巨大的冰山飘向远方。

水是生命之源，科学家用望远镜和探测器寻找地球之外的水源，从地球环境模拟生态演变，发现太阳系的多颗行星和卫星都有汪洋迹象，并可能有生命存活至今。我们苦苦寻找的外星生命，也许就近在身边，这结论挺叫人兴奋的。

This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments.　　In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town th...

Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley sets out to discover which if any of the tests are worth doing.

There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances?　　In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...

The vitamin industry is worth more than ￡400million a year in the UK alone, but what are these pills actually doing for people's health? Dr Giles Yeo aims to find out, exploring if vitamin and mineral supplements are what they appear to be and putting people's diets to the test to find out if they really need these supplements. Those he meets include a scientist in Copenhagen, ...

這是一個關於一群拾荒者在北京的故事，他們試圖從被廢棄物包圍的城市中尋找自己的生活。距離鳥巢國家體育場三公里外，是與城市風景截然不同的樣貌：約三萬多來自河南的移民住在那裏，透過手機和賣廢品為生。而在2015年，「廢城」即將被拆除…　　"It is a story about waste and recycling, not only recycling waste, but life, as well as the logic of the villages and cities.　　3 km away from the Nestle, National Stadium, there is a place completely different from the urban scenery. About 30,000 migrants from Hena...

二○六宿舍里住着几名即将毕业的男生。终日吃饭、聊天、打牌、玩手机，打发他们的青春时光，只为了混一张高中文凭。终于，高中毕业了，可是未来又在何方？去打工还是继续混个大专？　　面对这样的学生，教师们很难表现出教学热情。成绩不可能好，待遇也不高，得过且过，坐等学校搬迁早日到来。只有侯老师认真地擦着报栏（布告栏），一如既往。侯老师不善与人交往，生活中大部分的时间是一个人坐着，不说话。　　平遥县段村中学原址是一座明代古剎，清末在此设有义学，民国初年设高小（小学高年级），中华人民共和国成立后成立县办初中，八○年代成立县办高中。二○○一年高中扩招，在校学生达一千四百余名，为此校方在操场上新修一座教学楼。来到二○一一年夏天，全校一百五十余名学生和其它两所高中合并，迁入城中新校。操场上长出青草，教学楼中继续住着看门人老米和他的家人。　　导演简介　　郭恒奇，1979年出生于中国...

影片關注中國社會從文革時期到今天廣場上舞蹈的變化，追溯當下中國所流行的廣場舞實際來源於文革時期的忠字舞。三個主人公，分別是在文革時期敢於反抗並且到74歲還能倒立的周先生，到老了依然情懷不減，找到50年前文革時期他的初戀女友，並將當年分手時給她畫的畫像交給她；婚姻瀕臨破裂，並且每日照顧105歲的老父親的熊先生，70歲的他，不僅每日去廣場跳“牽手舞”，而且需要不斷更換女舞伴來尋求表面的性刺激以紓解照顧父親的心裏壓力，最後安靜送走父親；紅衛兵團團長63歲的尹女士，從她一開始對文革極左的傾向，到最後潸然淚下，反思悔恨當年的幼稚，並在她不斷地努力下，實現了人生的理想，最後到美國洛杉磯進行舞蹈演出，從而圓了她終身的夢想。他們在文革時期都跳過忠字舞，同時也是廣場舞的親身參與者。而今天他們又在為了實現自己最後的夢想而努力。本片通過廣場舞將他們串聯，將廣場上舞蹈的變化...

记录了Nekfeu创作第三张专辑Les étoiles vagabondes的过程。经历了一年多的“难产期”，Nekfeu决定离开巴黎，带领长期合作团队行迹三大洲，全心投入创作。从孤独、恐惧、迷茫，理清思绪，产出作品。　　影片仅在2019年6月6日各院线放映一次，逾10万观众观影。不论是Rap专辑电影的形式，还是记录创作的内容，均获大众和评论届一直好评。

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...

The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change.　　This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...

修建在南极布伦特冰架上的英国最尖端科学考察站哈利六号（Halley VI）遇到麻烦，巨大冰裂缝距离科考站只有6公里。本片讲述为价值近3千万英镑的哈利搬家的艰难工程。　　Last year, Natalie Hewit documented the British Antarctic Survey’s attempt to drag Halley VI, its 981-tonne research station, 23km to a safer location as the Brunt ice shelf it stands on begins to break up. The “beakers” – the science folk – make up a small minority of those involved – there are ...

A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS.　　On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on eve...

For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials.　　In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic...

ADHD指注意缺陷多动障碍，又称多动症。英国著名喜剧演员Rory Bremner受到多动症的困扰，他采访医疗机构，尝试新药，了解ADHD背后的科学

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.