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.
Six modern fables by Adam Curtis exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science using archive, clips from feature films, cartoons and home movies.
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States76%
WWII in HD75%
Horizon73%
The War81%
Natural World74%
NOVA70%
History 10171%
Mind Field82%
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War78%
30 for 3075%
Planet Earth III85%
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God69%
Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days75%
Nature79%
Top Gear79%
The Last Movie Stars69%
American Experience65%
Planet Earth II86%
Money, Explained72%
Biography67%
