Pandora's Box (1992)

Name: Pandora's Box
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Adam Curtis

Documentary

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.

IMDb rating: 8.1 (692 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 -0.5 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Cast

Adam Curtis Narrator

Seasons

Season 1 (1992)

7.63 avg 6 episodes 7.9 → 7.3 46 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Engineers' Plot: A Fable from the Age of Science	7.9	64
2	To the Brink of Eternity	7.7	53
3	The League of Gentlemen	7.6	48
4	Goodbye Mrs Ant	7.7	42
5	Black Power	7.6	40
6	A Is for Atom	7.3	49