Atlantis: The End of a World and the Birth of a Legend

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a 2011 BBC docudrama titled Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend which depicts a re-enactment of the events surrounding the volcanic eruption which destroyed the island of Thera, an incident believed to have inspired the legend of Atlantis. The hour-long programme is based on the work of leading scientists, archaeologists and historians, and featured Stephanie Leonidas and Reece Ritchie as members of the Bronze age civilisation. The film was narrated by Tom Conti, and made its debut on BBC One on Sunday 8 May 2011.

Featuring spectacular visual effects, this factually-based drama tells the gripping story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancient world, a disaster that triggered the downfall of a civilisation and spawned a legend.

Atlantis: The Evidence

In this Timewatch special, historian Bettany Hughes unravels one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time - did Atlantis really exist?

Dr. Hughes presents a series of geological, archaeological and historical clues to show that the legend of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event – the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world – the eruption of Thera on the Aegean island of Santorini. In this documentary Dr. Hughes traces the origins of the Atlantis myth and presents evidence that the Thera eruption inspired Plato’s account of this mystical land.

The Futurism of Walt Disney

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." ~ Walt Disney

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." ~ Walt Disney

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." ~ Walt Disney

"If you can dream it, you can do it." ~ Walt Disney

Today on Far Future Horizons we are proud to present “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: The Futurism of Walt Disney” a documentary that is a tribute to the creative genius and futuristic vision of Walt Disney.

James May on the Moon

Today on Far Future Horizons we follow British journalist James May (of Top Gear fame) as he commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. 


 In this documentary feature May interviews Apollo moonwalkers Harrison Schmitt, Alan Bean, and Charlie Duke, before he himself experiences the trill weightlessness and G-forces similar to that of a Saturn V rocket launch.

James May at the Edge of Space

Today on Far Future Horizons we follow British journalist James May (of Top Gear fame) as he realizes his life long dream of becoming an astronaut and flying to the very edge of space.

To fulfil his boyhood dream May had to first undergo three days of intensive training with the United States Air Force at Beale Air Force Base. During which, he practised safety drills and the proper use of a space suit.

Albert Einstein – How I See the World

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a documentary from the highly acclaimed PBS series American Masters concerning the twentieth century’s greatest theoretical physicists – Albert Einstein.

Antarctica ~ Secrets Beneath the Ice

Today on Far future Horizons we visit the vast frozen wasteland of Antarctica to glean the secrets of our planet’s climatic history and perhaps a glimpse of our future.

Universe: The Cosmology Quest

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a controversial documentary titled “Universe: The Cosmology Quest” which could have been aptly re-titled “The Big Bang Never Happened”.

Most of us are intrigued by questions to do with the origin and evolution of the universe. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

Ocean Floor Odyssey

Today on Far Future Horizons we will take a breathtaking odyssey beneath the waves to reveal an utterly alien landscape – The Ocean Floor.

We will see vast planes vaster than the Serengeti, mountain peaks higher than Everest and canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon.

Inside Secret Government Warehouses

Here's some pseudo-scientific fun. 

Alien body parts, powerful religious artifacts, the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer, what exactly is the United States Government keeping hidden from us in its secret government warehouses?

Inspired by SyFy Channel’s hit series Warehouse 13, NBC News award-winning journalist Lester Holt goes on a global expedition to uncover the truth behind the world’s top secret, mysterious warehouses where super-classified objects are kept.

In Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations, Holt capitalizes on exclusive access to restricted sites, traveling from Area 51 in Nevada to deep inside the Vatican secret archives – the centerpiece of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons – interviewing informants, Washington decision-makers, former top military personnel and leading experts.

Big History ~ The Big History of Everything

Cosmic Evolution ~ From Big Bang to Humankind

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the grand finale of the History Channel’s epic documentary series Big History.

The final instalment is a two-hour special that caps off the 16-episode first season of H2's "Big History".

Viking 40th Anniversary

Today on Far Future Horizons we commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Viking Missions to Mars and first successful landing of an unmanned space probe on the surface of Mars.  

Big History ~ Silver Supernova

Today on Far Future History we present another exciting episode of the History Channel’s documentary series Big History.

This instalment of Big History explores the role silver has played in the history of our planet and in human history.

Big History ~ H2O

Today on Far Future History we present another exciting episode of the History Channel’s documentary series Big History.

This instalment of Big History explores the role water has played in the history of our planet and in human history.

Big History ~ Rise of the Carnivores

A scene from the Motion Picture "2001: A Space Odyssey" ©1968MGM  

Today on Far Future History we present another exciting episode of the History Channel’s documentary series Big History.

This instalment of Big History explores a critical evolutionary step that shaped the human species when our Hominid ancestors added meat to their diet.

Big History ~ The Sun

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another fascinating episode of the History Channel’s documentary series Big History.

This instalment of Big History investigates how the history of humanity, life on Earth and Earth as a planet are intertwined with the history of the Sun.

Big History ~ Deadly Meteors

Formation of Chesapeake Bay

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the twelfth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics.

Big History ~ Decoded

DNA Molecule

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the eleventh episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics.

Big History ~ Pocket Time Machine

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the tenth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics.

Big History ~ Mountain Machines

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the ninth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics.

Big History ~ Brain Boost

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the eighth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

In this installment of Big History we look at the history behind the most popular drug in human history ~ Caffeine.

Big History ~ World of Weapons

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the seventh episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

In this installment of Big History we look at the history of warfare from a wider perspective.

Big History ~ Defeating Gravity

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the sixth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

Big History ~ Megastructures

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fifth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

In this instalment we investigate humankind's urge and fascination with building structures on a colossal scale.  

Big History ~ Below Zero

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fourth episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

This instalment of Big History reveals how cold has the power to turn men into Barbarians, spark history's longest running war, and create the concept of race. After the heat of the Big Bang, cold creates the Universe and the planet as we know it.

Big History ~ Gold Fever

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the third episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale.

This installment of “Big History explores humankind’s obsession with gold.

Big History – Horse Power Revolution

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the second episode of the History Channel’s documentary series “Big History” that presents History on a grand epic scale. 

Big History ~ The Secret Power of Salt

Today on Far Future Horizons we will be presenting a new documentary series that presents History on a grand epic scale.

“Big History” is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on the History Channel in 2013. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics.

The series has been criticized for its factual inaccuracies but, despite these mistakes and shortcomings the series brings to the attention of the general public an emerging academic discipline known as “Big History".

Rebels and Revolutionaries

"Novus Ordo Seclorum" ~ "A New Order of the Ages" Came into Being on this Day July 4^th, 1776

Today July 4^th, 2016, we celebrate the birth date of a unique nation and a unique people. Two hundred and forty years ago, fifty-seven men with an “iron pen” and on the authority of the good people of the colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence, mutually pledging to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor  thus, creating a nation whose very name is synonymous with ideas of freedom, liberty, and justice.

With the strength and resolve with which the Declaration was written these men forged a new nation and a new people noted for its rugged individualism and inventive spirit when confronted with the challenges of necessity in the face of a new frontier.

We are a nation whose structure of governance stands as the very hallmark of innovation in the very way a free people chooses to conduct their lives. Our nation and its freedoms are the cauldron from which a new and independent inventive spirit emerged. We are a people who never shied away from a challenge.

Benjamin Franklin – America’s Renaissance Man

Today on Far Future Horizons in order to help commemorate the two hundred and fortieth anniversary of the founding of the United States of America we explore the life of perhaps the greatest inventive mind that ever graced America’s cultural landscape before the birth of Thomas Edison and the arrival of America’s greatest import - the creative technological genius Nikola Tesla.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His signature appears on all the documents related to the founding of our nation from the Declaration of Independence to the Treaty of Paris which formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America.

Liberty - The American Revolution Episodes 1 and 2

"Novus Ordo Seclorum" ~ "A New Order of the Ages" Came into Being on this Day July 4^th, 1776

Today on Far Future Horizons we celebrate the two hundred and fortieth anniversary of the founding of the United States of America with the first two episodes of the landmark PBS series “Liberty: The American Revolution - "The Reluctant Revolutionaries" and "Blows Must Decide". This is a six part series hosted by former ABC News journalist Forrest Sawyer and narrated by veteran actor Edward Kirk Herrmann.

Alien Invasion: Are We Ready?

Today on Far Future Horizons we present an exciting episode from the acclaimed Science Channel documentary series Curiosity ~ Alien Invasion: Are We Ready?