Pandora's Box
“A fable from the age of science”
1992•1 Seasons•6 Episodes•7.4•Ended
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.
Creator
Adam Curtis
Network
BBC Two
Origin
GB
Cast
Adam Curtis
Narrator
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