Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 45 years that Horizon, and he, have been on air to find out what science has learned about how and why we grow old. Charting developments from macabre early claims of rejuvenation to the latest cutting-edge breakthroughs, Johnny discovers the sense of a personal mission that drives many scientists and asks whether we are really any closer to achieving the dream of immortality.

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzhei...

A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary ...

When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. W...

Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts...

A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the ea...

For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. F...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

Fernando is an actor and theater teacher who, at the age of 74, is impelled to be the protagonist of...

What happens after death? Lila Ribi's 100-year-old grandmother Greti always has the same answer: The...

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and w...

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the dail...

A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spr...

Hardly could anybody tell that 87 years old Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease. Over the years, Lou has...

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room....

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...

Canadian seniors over 65 are staying active through philanthropy, the arts, volunteerism, education,...

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly m...

A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mo...

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakesp...