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Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

1992 1 Seasons 6 Episodes ⭐ 7.4 Documentary

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Engineer's Plot

"The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended up

EP 2

To The Brink of Eternity

Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world coul

EP 3

The League of Gentlemen

Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means

EP 4

Goodbye Mrs Ant

A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime move

EP 5

Black Power

A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific

EP 6

A is For Atom

An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a differ

Popular Cast

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

Narrator