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Pandora's Box

TV Series

Pandora's Box

A fable from the age of science

7.3

1992

“A fable from the age of science”

Synopsis

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.

Created By

Adam Curtis

Documentary

cold warscientific studysocietypoliticsminiserieseconomicstechnocracy

Cast & Crew

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

as Narrator

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