Pandora's Box

Jun 11, 1992 (en) Documentary [111] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jun 11, 1992
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Pandora's Box
  • Release
    Jun 11, 1992
  • en
    -

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Adam Curtis

    Producer

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  1. Adam Curtis

    Narrator

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Casts : 1 / Crews : 3

Series 1 ( 1992-06-11)

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

The Engineer's Plot

Episode: 1

To The Brink of Eternity

Episode: 2

The League of Gentlemen

Episode: 3

Goodbye Mrs Ant

Episode: 4

Black Power

Episode: 5

A is For Atom

Episode: 6
Jun 11, 1992 (en)
Documentary
[111] Min
  • First Air Date Jun 11, 1992
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 72%
Original Title Pandora's Box
en

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Adam Curtis

    Producer