Horizon

- Season 19

(1982)

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Documentary looking at examples of curious aerial and visual phenomena which lead to misinterpretation of ordinary objects, and how simple investigations and techniques such as image enhancement are used to identify them. Interesting concepts introduced which show how human sight may not always see what it thinks it is seeing.

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A portrait of Professor Ian McColl, surgeon at Guys Hospital, London.

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Horizon's special investigation in this program is focused on the AIDS epidemic in its early years while the disease was making its first victims in UK. BBC's report the problem and consequences in U.S. following doctors, patients and everything that was gathered back in the first few years of its inception when very little was known about the disease except its progress, devastating effects and the alarming death toll.

A history of space exploration starting from the dawn of the space age in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Mainly using excerpts from newsreels and television programs the story covers Laika, Jupiter-C, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Alexey Leonov, Edward White, Apollo 1, Vladimir Komarov, Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo 17, Skylab, Salyut and Voyager 1. It includes interviews and broadcasts from Sir Bernard Lovell, James Burke, Frank Borman, Brian Aldiss, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Barbara Ward, Carl Sagan and Patrick ...