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"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.

Top Cast

  • 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

    Braverman

  • Taryn Manning

    Taryn Manning

    Mrs. Lowe

Overview

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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