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Pandora's Box

Six modern fables by Adam Curtis exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science using archive, clips from feature films, cartoons and home movies.

1. The Engineers' Plot (56 mins)

6. A Is for Atom
Why did a technology with the potential to change the world go so disastrously astray?
56 mins
5. Black Power
In 1957, Kwame Nkrumah dreamt of building an industrial utopia in west Africa.
56 mins
4. Goodbye Mrs Ant
A comic and absurd story about human beings, science and nature.
57 mins
3. The League of Gentlemen
The odd and sometimes comic story of the rise and fall of the science of money.
55 mins
2. To The Brink of Eternity
An investigation into the workings of the first scientific think-tank.
56 mins
1. The Engineers' Plot
First of six modern fables exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science.
56 mins