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Experimenter

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

6.5(500)20151h 37m5

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$224.1K
Language
English
  • experiment
  • psychology
  • controversy
  • biography
  • breaking the fourth wall

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Behind the camera

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival25 Jan 2015
    • TheatricalPG-1316 Oct 2015
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical (limited)12A14 Nov 2015
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)14A16 Oct 2015
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical (limited)1416 Oct 2015
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical14IMDB23 Sept 2016
  • DenmarkDK

    • Physical1515 Feb 2016
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical27 Jan 2016
  • GermanyDE

    • Digital / OTT1223 Sept 2016
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG25 Feb 2017
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical931 Mar 2016
    • Physical9DVD25 Aug 2016
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical (limited)1816 Oct 2015
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/124 Aug 2016

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Experimenter was released on 16 October 2015.

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  • R

    Reno

    5/23/2016

    6/10

    > A tale of the man who gave a breakthrough in the human psychology. A movie about the experiments on the human behaviour and for us, there's nothing in it but to study those characters along. This is more a documentary than the cheerful characters and the story with a twist. So forget it if you are looking for an entertainment film. Based on the true story of an American social psychologist Stanley Milgram. Th…

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