The mosquito used to be thought of as a mere nuisance until, in Victorian times, it was revealed that they were the ultimate killing machine, spreading the sometimes fatal disease of malaria. A century on, Horizon traces the astonishing war on the insect that this discovery unleashed, and how the mosquito and malaria have returned, increasingly immune to man's chemical weapons and spreading once more. Determined and seemingly unstoppable, together mosquitos and malaria are nature's deadliest partnership.

In 2009, Sakamoto Masayuki, a Japanese of Korean origin who faintly remembers his national identity, pledges allegiance to the Japanese. When a small number of Korean resistance retaliate against Japanese forces through an underground union, Sakamoto suddenly finds himself caught in a conspiracy. He begins to think that Seoul may not be a part of Japan and embarks on a mission to find the truth.

The samurai live by a code of honor. Now they must also die for it. But they're not alone in their strugle against the forces that would forever change them. Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Alfren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe (Academy Award nominee) plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes interrwined with that of the American captain, Edward Zwick direct this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan.