Horizon
Season 41 Episode 2 - The Moscow Theatre Siege
With the help of doctors and scientists in America, Germany and Britain, Horizon unpicks the mystery of the Moscow theatre siege. In October 2002, Chechen terrorists took a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre and threatened to kill them. The problem was how to get them out alive. A bloodbath seemed inevitable. Three days later Russian special forces stormed the theatre using a secret gas to knock everybody out. 129 hostages died - apparently killed by the very gas that was meant to save them. Horizon investigates the mystery substance, and why so many died. The Russian authorities insisted their secret weapon was not lethal. The claim provoked contempt from the victims families, and incredulity among doctors and scientists around the world. But were the Russians actually right? The Russians offered just one clue. And in Germany there was a scientist who had the means to test it: a urine sample taken from one of the survivors shortly after he was freed. Horizon follows as extremely sensitive tests are performed to find out if the Russians were telling the truth, and uncovers a deeper secret.
Episodes in Season 41
The Demonic Ape
60 min
The Moscow Theatre Siege
60 min
The Atkins Diet
60 min
Secrets of the Star Disc
60 min
The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön
60 min
Thalidomide - A Second Chance?
60 min
Diamond Labs
60 min
T-Rex - Warrior or Wimp?
60 min
Project Poltergeist
60 min
The Truth of Troy
60 min
The Truth About Vitamins
60 min
King Solomon's Tablet of Stone
60 min
Derek Tastes of Earwax
60 min
What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
60 min
Making Millions the Easy Way
60 min
Saturn - Lord of the Rings
60 min
The Hunt for the Supertwister
60 min
Dr Money and the Boy with No Penis
60 min
