Pandora's Box (1992)

Genre

documentary film, documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A BBC documentary series that examines the unintended consequences of scientific and political systems. The six episodes cover topics from Soviet communism and cold war game theory to DDT and nuclear power.

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What happens

Pandora's Box, subtitled A Fable From the Age of Science, is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis looking at the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. It won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 1993. Curtis deals with, in order: Communism in the Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, the economy of the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana in the 1950s, and the history of nuclear power. The documentary makes extensive use of clips from the short film Design for Dreaming, especially in the title sequence. Curtis's later series The Century of the Self and The Trap have similar themes to Pandora's Box. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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