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.
The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out...
Can Homo sapiens evolve into Homo spatius? For over 50 years now, we have been testing our human nat...
Contrary to the public stereotype of a youthful homosexual community, gay men and women do grow old....
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts...
An immersive documentary about four nurses working in retirement houses in Alzheimer units. Near to ...
Fernando is an actor and theater teacher who, at the age of 74, is impelled to be the protagonist of...
For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. F...
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and w...
A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary ...
The Walking Man follows an 82-year-old man with a passion for the cosmos who has walked the equivale...
Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzhei...
François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the dail...
At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...
Hardly could anybody tell that 87 years old Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease. Over the years, Lou has...
At a mobile home park in small-town Northern California, five best friend retirees navigate their go...
Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-M...
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mo...
At 18, right after the Second World War, Birgitta Stenberg bought a one-way ticket to Europe. Far fr...