"A fable from the age of science"

Pandora's Box

Name: Pandora's Box
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1992-06-11
Rating: 7.368
Cast: Adam Curtis

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Documentary

Creator:Adam Curtis

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.

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Details

StatusEnded

First AiredJune 11, 1992

Last AiredJuly 16, 1992

Episode Runtime55dk

Seasons1

Episodes6

TypeMiniseries

Origin CountryUnited Kingdom

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

Keywords

cold war scientific study society politics miniseries economics technocracy

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Last Episode

S1 E6 • 7/16/1992

A is For Atom

An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a different world with a limitless source of nuclear energy. But things began to go wrong. Scientists in America and the Soviet Union were duped into building dozens of potentially dangerous plants. Then came the disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which changed views on the safety of this new technology. This episode was named after a 1953 General Electric propaganda film explaining nuclear power and features artfully chosen footage from this film.