The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jul 17, 2015 | IMDB 6.8
122 min Watch NowThriller, Drama, History
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
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