Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

1992/06/11 - 1992/07/16 • Ended • 1 Seasons • English

Documentary
7.3

A fable from the age of science

Overview

Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.

Creator(s) : Adam Curtis

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Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

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1992/06/11 • 6 Episodes

Six modern fables by Adam Curtis exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science using archive, clips from feature films, cartoons and home movies.

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