ExperimenterMark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Year | 2015 |
Country | USA |
Premiere | |
Budget | $0 |
Box | in world | $155 575 | USA | $155 575 | In other countries | $0 |
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Duration | 02:10 |
Storyline
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.