The Stanford Prison Experiment

They were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days.

A tense, intellectually rigorous examination of how ordinary people descend into cruelty when given power, grounded in the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.

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.