Horizon Season 2002

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2002x01 Helike - The Real Atlantis aired Jan 10, 2002

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... read more

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2002x02 Volcano Hell aired Jan 17, 2002

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... read more

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2002x03 Fatbusters aired Jan 24, 2002

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 t... read more

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2002x04 The Lost Pyramids of Caral aired Jan 31, 2002

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 ... read more

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2002x05 Death of the Iceman aired Feb 07, 2002

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 ... read more

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2002x06 Parallel Universes aired Feb 14, 2002

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 ... read more

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2002x07 The Dinosaur that Fooled the World aired Feb 21, 2002

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 tr... read more

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2002x08 The Fall of the World Trade Center aired Mar 07, 2002

The World Trade Center was built on revolutionary design principles. It turned conventional architectural and structural techniques on their head. Built from... read more

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2002x09 Archimedes' Secret aired Mar 14, 2002

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 ... read more

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2002x10 The Mystery of the Jurassic aired Mar 28, 2002

For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the ea... read more

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2002x11 Killer Lakes aired Apr 04, 2002

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... read more

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2002x12 The A6 Murder aired May 16, 2002

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... read more

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2002x13 The England Patient aired May 23, 2002

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 examine... read more

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2002x14 Freak Wave aired Nov 14, 2002

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 e... read more

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2002x15 Stone Age Columbus aired Nov 21, 2002

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 ye... read more

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2002x16 Homeopathy: The Test aired Nov 26, 2002

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 influenti... read more

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2002x17 The Day the Earth Nearly Died aired Dec 05, 2002

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 ... read more

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2002x18 The Secret of El Dorado aired Dec 19, 2002

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,... read more

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