Matthew Barrett

The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

Two roommates' lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret. ...

Lost Cities: The Great Flood (2021)

Albert Lin is on a global adventure, from icy Black Sea depths to the heights of the Peruvian Andes, searching for the origins of Great Flood stories. ...

I Am Pilate (2020)

A journalist is sent to the home of former district governor, but his routine obituary fact check reveals an extraordinary secret. ...

Avenging Evil (2019)

In 1946, just after the end of World War II, a secret organization of Holocaust survivors plans a terrible revenge: since the Nazis have killed millions of Jews, they will kill millions of Germans. ...

Ce que Darwin ne savait pas encore (2009)

The Shogun (2008)

With cunning and courage the japanese warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu managed to unify Japan after 150 years of civil war. ...

The Comet's Tale (2007)

Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where they come from. ...

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon (2007)

Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled i ...

The Somme: From Defeat to Victory (2006)

Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German soldiers. It shows how the major lessons learned by the British Army leadership after the disastrous first attac ...

Hiroshima (2005)

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for ...

Global Dimming (2005)

This may be the one of the most important Horizon films of recent years. Climate scientists have just discovered a phenomenon that threatens to disrupt our world. It may already have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands through drought and fa ...

The Day The Earth Nearly Died (2002)

Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaeontologists in Greenland explain the answers. ...