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Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box

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Pandora's Box

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Pandora's Box

·1992·6 episodes

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.

Cast

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

Crew

Creator

Adam Curtis

Status:

Ended

Original Language:

English

Type:

Miniseries

Networks:

BBC Two

Keywords

cold war
scientific study
society
politics
miniseries
economics
technocracy
rationalism