Yale College, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that also resonates to this present day, during which folks assume they’re delivering painful electrical shocks to an affable stranger strapped right into a chair in one other room. Regardless of his pleads for mercy, nearly all of topics don’t cease the experiment, administering what they assume is a near-fatal electrical shock, just because they’ve been instructed to take action. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in residing rooms throughout America, Milgram strikes a nerve in widespread tradition and the scientific neighborhood along with his exploration into folks’s tendency to adjust to authority. Celebrated in some circles, he's additionally accused of being a misleading, manipulative monster, however his spouse Sasha stands by him via all of it.
