Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box
1992
★★★★☆ 7.3/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 6 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 55 min/ep
Documentary
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.

Seasons

Season 1
1992 • 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.

Crew

Director
Adam Curtis
Writer
Adam Curtis
Producer
Adam Curtis

Network

BBC Two

Keywords

cold warscientific studysocietypoliticsminiserieseconomicstechnocracy