Pandora's Box

Name: Pandora's Box
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1992-06-11
Rating: 7.368
Cast: Adam Curtis

A fable from the age of science

7.4First aired 1992-06-11Last aired 1992-07-16Status: Ended

Documentary

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Networks: BBC Two

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.