TV series
Pandora's Box
1992 · 1 season
A cool, essayistic plunge through twentieth-century hubris, weaving archive footage into a seductive, unsettling argument about reason gone wrong.
- Created by
- Adam Curtis
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Adam Curtis
- Tagline
- A fable from the age of science
- 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.
- How it feels
- Dark, cynical, melancholic and satirical. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Politics, power, science, technology
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Adam Curtis
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Adam Curtis
