Experimenter(2015)

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.

Genre: Drama, History

Director: Michael Almereyda

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Anthony Edwards, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, Edoardo Ballerini, Vondie Curtis-Hall, John Leguizamo

Release date: 2015-10-16

Country of origin: United States of America

Length: 1h 37m

Ratings:

• 6.6/10
• 85%
• 81/100