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Experimenter

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Experimenter

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

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Experimenter

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Originally produced by Unobstructed View in 2015

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Summary

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. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram?s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continues to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and the **The New York Film Festival**

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live action

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