The Milgram experiments showed that humans will do bad things under the right circumstances. NPR's Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film "Experimenter" that explores Stanley Milgram's life.

Peter Sarsgaard portrays controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram and Winona Ryder plays his wife, Sasha, in director Michael Almereyda’s “Experimenter.” (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) ...

"Experimenter": Social psychologist Stanley Milgram's notorious, eye-opening obedience experiments from 1961 — in which subjects were observed as they administered what they thought were harmful ...

Experimenter is itself experimental. Now and then Sarsgaard looks into the camera and talks to us. He narrates snippets of historical footage. He puts his work in a social context. He smiles at ...

Meanwhile, systematic violence continues around the globe. As Milgram put it, “Human nature can be studied, not escaped.” Originally Published: October 22, 2015 at 6:06 AM MDT ...

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The film opens with the Milgram’s study, which he conducted while he taught at Yale. In the experiment, a subject is designated the role of the teacher while another person, one of the researchers, ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver ...

"Experimenter," Michael Almereyda's film about the psychologist Stanley Milgram, manages to be something truly rare: a biopic with a soul as quirky and compelling as its protagonist.

EXPERIMENTER tells the fascinating story of how Milgram came to run these tests and the fire storm of controversy they created, shock waves from which are still being felt to this day. I can recall ...

But the method of presentation is what’s unusual here. Made with few stars — Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, and Santa Barbara’s own Anthony Edwards — the film feels more like a play than a Hollywood ...

Experimenter (2015) Film Review from the 2015 New York Film Festival, a movie directed by Michael Almereyda, and starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, and ...