Experimenter
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.
Views: 240
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Heather Quick, Michael Almereyda, Sasha Vitelli
Actors: Anthony Edwards, Danny A. Abeckaser, Donnie Keshawarz, Harley Ware, Jason Black, Jim Gaffigan, John Leguizamo, John Palladino, Kyla Haggerty, Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder
