Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tulleken is himself. And he wants to know why.
In this sensitive film, Xand finds out what we know about why people develop suicidal thoughts, and whether there is anything that we ca...
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Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does learn more. In this film Horizon meets the scientists working on the cutting edge of discov...
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, ...
在一座拜金主義的城市中,有一群人仍堅持活出「人活著不是單靠食物」的哲學,他們不是選擇隱居厭世,而是選擇透過藝術創作,積極入世、提昇心靈、影響別人。
數位水墨始創者黃琮瑜,他的創作手法不單打破普羅大眾認為國畫是老土陳舊玩意的概念,更讓觀眾從新的角度瞭解國畫。他將中西文化精髓揉合起來,作品三度入選香港藝術雙年展。
編舞家周佩韻,努力不懈創作不同的演出模式,打破舞蹈觀賞界限。她的編舞作品《界限.街道圖》,創造了一次互動經驗。這演出首次打破香港觀眾觀賞舞蹈的模式:觀眾不再是被動地欣賞演出,表演場地被改造成一個既規範又無限的環境。這種創新的互動觀賞經驗,連政府文化部門的官員也感驚訝,更創出本地舞蹈節目百分之百入座率的紀錄。她將觀眾消失了的熱情重生,亦使我們的年代重生。
Digital Artist Wong Chung Yu created digital i...
In this unique documentary Pope Francis opens the Vatican’s doors to the world, and guides us, with his voice over, discovering his personal and passionate concept of Art: instrument of evangelization and opposition to the culture of transitory. In this extraordinary journey, the audience will have the privilege to admire the eternal beauty of the Vatican Museums, Saint Peter’s...
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One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. Thirty years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida herself, it is a condition she doesn't fully understand. In this programme, Ruth sets out to discover why she has it, whether it ...
Artificial Intelligence is starting to transform healthcare beyond recognition. The vision for tech companies is to get AI computers to diagnose diseases as well as a human doctor, which could ultimately result in accessible, more affordable, better healthcare for almost everyone.
In a world with a chronic shortage of doctors, but where even the very poor own mobile phones, it ...
The BBC's Horizon programme began in 1964, and since then has produced films looking at computer technology and the emergence of 'artificial intelligence'.
Our dreams always begin with ideology and optimism, only for this optimism to be replaced with suspicion that AI machines will take over. However, as the Horizon archive shows, throughout each decade once we have learnt to l...
We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. This affects our health as much as our diet and whether we exercise. So what can we do to manage this internal clock better?
To find out, evolutionary biologist Ella Al-Shamahi locks former commando Aldo Kane in an abandoned nuclear bunker with no way of telling the time - for ten days. Monito...
quot;The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the f...
In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormonal contraception were 70% more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who were not. And another study has found hormonal contraception was linked to a seemingly dramatic risk of breast cancer...
A young charismatic preacher and his hot Latina girlfriend travel Route 66 scamming the small churches along the way only to find that the bogus healing powers he portrays become real. The healing powers serve as a blessing and a curse.
冷战时期,布鲁斯·班纳(艾瑞克·巴纳 Eric Bana 饰)的父亲是美军的一位科学家,致力于研究通过基因改造让人类获得超强的能力,想以此为美军打造超级士兵。可是他的项目没有获得美军的支持,不能进行人体试验,疯狂的父亲为了完成试验就在刚出生的班纳身上进行基因试验。多年后,班纳成为了出色的科学家,专职为军方开发新型的高能炸弹。在一次例行的试验中,由于操作失误,班纳为了保护同事,受到了一场伽马射线的强力辐射。常人如果在这场射线爆炸下肯定必死无疑,可是班纳却活了下来。多年前,父亲在其身上做的试验也因这场核辐射生效。一旦班纳发怒时,就会诱发身体里的神秘力量,变为毫无意识的绿巨人,拥有超强的破坏力和反抗意识。因此,美国军方为了深入研究,开始围追堵截绿巨人……
纽约大战后,雷神索尔(克里斯·海姆斯沃斯 Chris Hemsworth 饰)将弟弟洛基(汤姆·希德勒斯顿 Tom Hiddleston 饰)带回仙宫囚禁起来,此外帮助九大国度平定纷争,威名扶摇直上。虽然父王奥丁(安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)劝其及早即位,但索尔念念不忘地球的美丽女孩简·福斯特(娜塔丽·波特曼 Natalie Portman 饰)。与此同时,简在和黛西及其助手伊安调查某个区域时意外被神秘物质入侵,却也因此重逢索尔,并随其返回仙宫。令人意想不到的是,藏在简体内的物质来自远古的黑暗精灵玛勒基斯(克里斯托弗·埃克莱斯顿 Christopher Eccleston 饰)。在“天体汇聚”的时刻再次到来之际,玛勒基斯企图摧毁九大国度,缔造一个全然黑暗的宇宙。
藏匿简的仙宫受到重创,而索尔和洛基这对冤家兄弟也不得不联手迎战...
钢铁侠托尼·斯塔克(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰)在国会听证上拒绝交出最新技术。与此同时,他发现胸口的微型电弧反应炉正迅速造成血液的钯金属中毒。沮丧的托尼将斯塔克公司的总裁职务交予了秘书波兹(格温妮丝·帕特罗 Gwyneth Paltrow 饰),由她全权负责正在进行的纽约斯塔克博览会。波兹从法律部门调来助理娜塔莉(斯佳丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰)照顾托尼。托尼在媒体前的高调亮相引起了其父当年同事的儿子,伊凡(米基·洛克 Mickey Rourke 饰)的不满。为了实施报复,他子承父业,研制出了一套可与钢铁战衣相媲美的装备。伊凡的技术引起了托尼的竞争对手,军火商贾斯丁·汉默(山姆·洛克威尔 Sam Rockwell 饰)的注意,他设法将伊凡劫持出狱,秘密研究取代钢铁侠。正当托尼苦于钯金属中毒造成的失意之时,他发现娜塔莉原来身负秘密使命,而自己的任性,也造成了与好友,空军上校罗尼(唐·钱德尔 Don Cheadle 饰)的反目,眼看局势就要失控……