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.
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Peter Sarsgaard
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Winona Ryder
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Jim Gaffigan
James McDonough
Edoardo Ballerini
Paul Hollander
John Palladino
John Williams
Kellan Lutz
William Shatner
Dennis Haysbert
Ossie Davis
Danny A. Abeckaser
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Taryn Manning
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Anthony Edwards
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Lori Singer
Florence Asch
Josh Hamilton
Tom Shannon
Anton Yelchin
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Adriana Randall
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Donnie Keshawarz
Bruno
Michael Siberry
George Bellak
Ned Eisenberg
Solomon Asch
John Leguizamo
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Tom Farrell
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Emily Vere Nicoll
Donna Abbott
Paul Lazar
Paul Errara
Gameela Wright
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Pascal Yen-Pfister
Serge Moscovici
Lucy Fava
Michele Milgram
Betty Gabriel
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Tom Bateman
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Emily Tremaine
Shelia Jarcho
Vondie Curtis-Hall
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