Experimenter
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Experimenter

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

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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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.

Released October 16, 2015

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Peter Sarsgaard

Peter Sarsgaard

Stanley Milgram

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan

James McDonough

Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini

Paul Hollander

John Palladino

John Palladino

John Williams

Kellan Lutz

Kellan Lutz

William Shatner

Dennis Haysbert

Dennis Haysbert

Ossie Davis

Danny A. Abeckaser

Danny A. Abeckaser

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