The BEST episodes directed by Ben Fox

Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
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8.00
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#1 - Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth

Horizon - Season 2012 - Episode 3

Scientists are expecting a fit of violent activity on the sun which will propel billions of tonnes of superheated gas and pulses of energy towards our planet. They have the power to close down our modern technological civilization. Horizon meets the space weathermen who are trying to predict what's coming our way, and organistions like the National Grid which are preparing for the impending solar storms.

Mystery Of The Megavolcano
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7.83
6 votes

#2 - Mystery Of The Megavolcano

NOVA - Season 33 - Episode 12

Researchers unearth clues about the greatest Volcanic eruption of the past 100000 years.

Mystery Of The Megaflood
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7.10
31 votes

#3 - Mystery Of The Megaflood

NOVA - Season 32 - Episode 8

It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that thousand-foot-deep floodwaters had scoured out vast areas of the American northwest near the end of the last ice age. Mainstream scientists scorned his theory while he searched patiently for answers to what could have triggered such an inconceivably violent event. Finally, an ingenious solution silenced the skeptics: traces of an enormous ice dam half a mile high, which had blocked a valley in present-day Montana and created an enormous lake behind it. With the help of stunningly realistic animation, NOVA takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when the dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.