Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box (1992)

A fable from the age of science

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Adam Curtis
  • First Air Date: 1992-06-11
  • Last Air Date: 1992-07-16
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 6
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 55 min.
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Network: BBC Two
  • Director:
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Summary

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.

  • Keywords: cold war, scientific study, society, politics, miniseries, economics, technocracy, rationalism
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    Pandora's Box Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1992-06-11
    6 Episodes

    Pandora's Box Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1The Engineers' Plot60 min
    Season 1Episode 2To the Brink of Eternity60 min
    Season 1Episode 3The League of Gentlemen60 min
    Season 1Episode 4Goodbye Mrs. Ant60 min
    Season 1Episode 5Black Power60 min
    Season 1Episode 6A is for Atom60 min
    • Adam Curtis

      as Narrator
    Production Adam Curtis Producer
    Writing Adam Curtis Writer
    Directing Adam Curtis Director

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