Pandora's box ; The Mayfair set / written, produced and directed by Adam Curtis.
Pandora's box is a six-part documentary 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 insectici...
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| Format: | DVD/Blu-Ray |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Pandora's box is a six-part documentary 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. The Mayfair set: The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of London's Clermont Club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000. |
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| Item Description: | Title from disc screen. Pandora's box originally produced as a miniseries for the BBC in 1992. The Mayfair set was originally broadcast on BBC2 in the summer of 1999. The four episodes appear on one disc. |
| Physical Description: | 3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, colour and black and white ; 12 cm |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC, Region-free. |
| Production Credits: | Pandora's box: film research, Christine Whittaker ; editor, Jim Latham. |