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.
In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to def...
Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts...
Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzhei...
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. W...
A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary ...
For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. F...
A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spr...
Fernando is an actor and theater teacher who, at the age of 74, is impelled to be the protagonist of...
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsber...
What happens after death? Lila Ribi's 100-year-old grandmother Greti always has the same answer: The...
Hardly could anybody tell that 87 years old Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease. Over the years, Lou has...
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and w...
At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...
Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-M...
The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have g...
Can Homo sapiens evolve into Homo spatius? For over 50 years now, we have been testing our human nat...
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mo...
On the outside, it looks like any ordinary seniors' facility. But on the inside, a series of remarka...