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.
Stanley Milgram
Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
James McDonough
Paul Hollander
John Williams
William Shatner
Ossie Davis
Braverman
Mrs. Lowe
Miller
Florence Asch
Tom Shannon
Rensaleer
Mrs. Stein
Bruno
George Bellak
Solomon Asch
Taylor
Whittaker
Donna Abbott
Paul Errara
Mrs. Greer
Serge Moscovici
Michele Milgram
Sally
Dick Cavett
Shelia Jarcho
Thomas Shine
Woman in Yellow
Stephen Macht
Hospital Receptionist
Harvard Student
Harvard Student
Harvard Student
C.U.N.Y. Student
C.U.N.Y. Student
Contemporary Crowd Crystal Experimenter
Crying Man (uncredited)
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