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Pandora's Box Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.5 |
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About
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.
"A fable from the age of science"
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Series 11992
7.829064h 35m
Six modern fables by Adam Curtis exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science using archive, clips from feature films, cartoons and home movies.
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | The Engineers' Plot: A Fable from the Age of Science | 8.0 | 63 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | To the Brink of Eternity | 7.9 | 52 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | The League of Gentlemen | 7.8 | 47 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Goodbye Mrs Ant | 7.9 | 41 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Black Power | 7.8 | 39 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | A Is for Atom | 7.5 | 48 | 46 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
George Ball Self
Milton Friedman Self
Tony Benn Self
David H. Hackworth Self
John Stockwell Self - CIA Officer in West Africa
Joan Halifax Self - The Ojai Foundation
Samuel Brittan Self - The Financial Times
Keith Joseph Self
Jerry Pournelle Self
Samuel Cohen Self - Inventor of the Neutron Bomb
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