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.
An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly m...
Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts...
Can Homo sapiens evolve into Homo spatius? For over 50 years now, we have been testing our human nat...
A documentary revealing society's perceptions of old age.
A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary ...
Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzhei...
The Walking Man follows an 82-year-old man with a passion for the cosmos who has walked the equivale...
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the ea...
A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spr...
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...
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...
François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the dail...
Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-M...
At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsber...
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mo...