Experimenter (2015)

Yale University 1961 Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day in which people think theyre delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room Despite his pleads for mercy the majority of subjects dont stop the experiment administering what they think is a nearfatal electric shock simply because theyve been told to do so With Nazi Adolf Eichmanns trial airing in living rooms across America Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into peoples 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