You Do As You Are Told | Horizon

03: Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...

01: Mind Control | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley traces the sinister ways science has been used to try to control our minds, finding that its pursuit has led to...

02: Emotions | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our min...

The Heist

Derren Brown recruits participants to attend a ''motivational seminar'' where he manipulates them into robbing a security van in broad daylight. A reenactment of a...

The Hospital That Didn't Care

Joel Mapp presents a special BBC investigation looking at how hundreds of patients died after what an inquiry called appalling suffering at Sta...

The Stanford Prison Experiment

In 1971, a group of American student volunteers adopted the roles of prisoners and guards in a specially controlled environment - it was quick...

S11E01: Changing Minds | Child of Our Time

Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at si...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains | The Life Scientific

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the developing teenage brain.

How did Milgram's participants feel? | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley speaks to a participant from the original Milgram study to find out how they felt about ...

Real footage from Milgram's study | Horizon

Milgram discusses his famous obedience experiment alongside actual footage from the study.

05: Why Do I Need You?

This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.

Case Study: Kitty Genovese | Mind Changers

When a young woman was brutally killed in an attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help. The case led to ...

Evil place vs good people | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo explains the conclusions that he came to from the Stanford prison experiment about whether it was the sit...

Zimbardo explains the experiment | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo shows how the Stanford prison experiment was set up and what it aimed to show.

06: Who Will We Be?

Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.

Footage from the Stanford prison experiment | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Real footage and interview with a participant showing what it was like to be in the Stanford pri...

Living with Autism | Horizon

Professor Uta Frith shows how another kind of reality exists for people with autism and if many of us could be a little bit autistic.

Teenage Brain | The Infinite Monkey Cage

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Rory Bremner, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Matthew Cobb to discover the science behind...

The bystander effect | Mind Changers

The bystander effect and how fewer people than you might think intervene when they witness a crime taking place.

04: The Watchful Web | The History Of Surveillance

Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, compri...