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Pandora's Box

1992 1 season 6 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

60 min

S1 · E1 · Jun 11, 1992

The Engineer's Plot Episode 1

"The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended up creating a bewildering world for millions of Soviet people. In this light-hearted investigation, one industrial planner tells how she decided the people wanted platform shoes, only to discover that they had gone out of fashion by the time that the factory to manufacture them had been built.

7.7 · You

60 min

S1 · E2 · Jun 18, 1992

To The Brink of Eternity Episode 2

Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation. In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy.

7.6 · You

60 min

S1 · E3 · Jun 22, 1992

The League of Gentlemen Episode 3

Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. Pandora's Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?

7.5 · You

60 min

S1 · E4 · Jul 2, 1992

Goodbye Mrs Ant Episode 4

A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime movers of social or political change when, for instance, DDT made post-war heroes of American scientists only to be put on trial by other scientists in 1968? What kind of in-fighting goes on between rival camps before one scientific truth emerges, and when it does emerge, just how true is it?

7.6 · You

60 min

S1 · E5 · Jul 9, 1992

Black Power Episode 5

A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt."

7.5 · You

60 min

S1 · E6 · Jul 16, 1992

A is For Atom Episode 6

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.

7.3 · You

6 episodes in Season 1

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“A fable from the age of science”

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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Adam Curtis

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Adam Curtis Creator

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Adam Curtis

Total runtime 5h 30m · Episode length 55 min · Type Miniseries

Show info

Premiered

June 11, 1992

Final episode

July 16, 1992

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

55 min

Total runtime

5h 30m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

Produced in

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

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