TV Show Details
Air Date:June 11th, 1992
Last Air Date:July 16th, 1992
Network:BBC Two
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Pandora's Box on the Web:Official Website
Pandora's Box (1992)
BBC Two
Miniseries
"A fable from the age of science"
Audience Score
StarringAdam Curtis
Plot
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.
