The BEST episodes of Horizon season 1999
Every episode of Horizon season 1999, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Horizon season 1999!
Amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
#1 - New Star in Orbit
Season 1999 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1999
In this report, Horizon explores the arguments for and against the building of the Space Station Freedom and will it ever justify it's huge cost.
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#2 - The Midas Formula
Season 1999 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1999
Horizon presents the extraordinary story of a beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world, the financial markets, and indeed capitalism itself. It could do the unthinkable - it took the risk out of playing the money-markets. To its inventors it brought the Nobel Prize for economics. To those who used it, it brought great wealth. But this glittering tale would end in tragedy.
#3 - From Here to Infinity
Season 1999 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/1999
Horizon follows the hunt for the most distant star ever seen.
#4 - Pandemic
Season 1999 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/1999
Horizon looks at the knowledge gained following the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
#5 - Elephants or Ivory
Season 1999 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1999
In this episode, Horizon reports from Africa on the effect that rising elephant numbers are having on humans and the natural environment.
#6 - Electric Heart
Season 1999 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/1999
Horizon presents a documentary looking at the United States heart specialist, Michael DeBakey, and his work and research into making miniature pumps which could help make permanent artificial hearts in the future.
#7 - New Asteroid Danger
Season 1999 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/1999
Horizon presents this documentary by scientists who have calculated that the Earth will be hit by a small asteroid within 50 years. How will this effect our planet?
#8 - Skeleton Key
Season 1999 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1999
In this report, Horizon investigates the rare disease called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, which causes muscles and ligaments to turn into solid bone. This disease causes severe disfigurement and suffering, and often-time death. We look at the research by scientists trying to find out the causes of the disease and how to find a cure.
#9 - Mistaken Identity
Season 1999 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1999
Horizon presents a documentary about Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) where in the 1980's, it suddenly became the talk of the town. Tens of thousands of Americans were diagnosed with an illness that was previously unheard of. A trigger for this sudden was the release of a film, "Sybil". Telling the dramatic story of a woman diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, the film was shown across America making Sybil a household name.
#10 - Volcanoes of the Deep
Season 1999 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1999
Could giant volcanic 'chimneys' on the ocean floor unlock the secret of how life began on Earth?
#11 - Anatomy of an Avalanche
Season 1999 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1999
Horizon reports on a February 1999 catastrophic avalanche at Galtür in Austria that claimed 31 lives. Over the next six months, Horizon followed a team of scientists as they pieced together the extraordinary chain of events that led to the disaster. The scientists' investigations into the extreme forces of nature responsible for the tragedy are making people re-evaluate their calculations about avalanches.
#12 - Sudden Death
Season 1999 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/1999
In this Horizon documentary, we present Alfred Steinschneider's theory on cot death where gaps in breathing could be responsible for the death of many infants.
#13 - Wings of Angels
Season 1999 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/1/1999
Dramatisation of biologist David Lack's struggle to reconcile scientific evidence for evolution with his belief in God.