Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

1992·1 season, 6 episodes
7.3/ 10 (18 votes)

A fable from the age of science

Documentary

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.

Director

Adam Curtis

Created By

Adam Curtis

Writers

Adam Curtis

Cast

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Details

Language

en

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two
BBC Two