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Surviving a Car Crash
Having exclusive access to the secretive world of the most advanced car crash tests on the planet, Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past.
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Are You Good or Evil?
What makes us good or evil? It’s a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars – psychopathic killers.
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Complete Obsession: Body Dysmorphia – Voluntary Amputation
What happens when a completely healthy person wants their leg amputated? Although Body Dysmorphia is rare, a worldwide network of sufferers is growing and demanding treatment. It affects both men and women and each person has a precise sense of which limb or limbs they want removed.
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Imagine: The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories
Presenter Alan Yentob meets clinical neurologist and author Dr Oliver Sacks to investigate the myriad ways we experience the visual world and the strange things that can happen when our mind fails to understand what our eyes see. In the course of this investigation, Yentob tells the life story of Dr Oliver Sacks, the man who would become one of the world’s most famous scientists.
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Taboo: Blood Bonds
What makes the perfect family? In the Himalayas, the answer may be multiple husbands, while in certain provinces of China, women are in charge.
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Mental: A History of the Mad House
This documentary tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain’s mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country.
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The Human Face
The Human Face is a four part BBC series that examines the science behind facial beauty, expression, and fame in an entertaining fashion.
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Heckler
Jamie Kennedy looks into the world of hecklers, critics and all those who try to mess with what other people are doing.
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Thin
Thin is the story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida.
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Consuming Kids
Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children’s marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.
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The Secrets of the Austrian Cellar
This is the grizzly tale of how Josef Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar beneath his house for 24 years. Here she was used as his sex slave and gave birth to seven of his children.
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Horizon: What Makes a Genius?
Could you have come up with Einstein’s theory of relativity? If not – why not? This is what Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics, wants to explore. Marcus readily admits that he is no genius, but wants to know if geniuses are just an extreme version of himself – or whether their brains are fundamentally different.
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