Pandora's Box (British TV series)

Pandora's Box
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Written by	Adam Curtis
Directed by	Adam Curtis
Theme music composer	Jon King Andy Gill
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Edward Mirzoeff
Producers	Adam Curtis Daniel Reed
Running time	360 mins (in six parts)
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	11 June (1992-06-11) – 16 July 1992 (1992-07-16)
Related
The Living Dead (1995)
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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.^[1]

Curtis deals with, in order: Communism in the Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, 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.