- HD 1080
- Runtime: 97m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Michael Almereyda
- Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini, John Palladino
- keywords: experiment, psychology, controversy, biography, breaking the fourth wall
- Production_studio: FJ Productions, BB Film Productions
- Slogan: Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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.