Films like Experimenter
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 su...
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyIn 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the p...
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The Experiment
Film · 2010 · also drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Adventures of a Mathematician
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyThe warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all...
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Shattered Glass
Film · 2003 · also drama and historyStephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Ston...
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You Don't Know Jack
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyControversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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Get On Up
Film · 2014 · also drama and historyA chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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The Railway Man
Film · 2013 · also drama and historyA victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Nightwatching
Film · 2007 · also drama and historyAn extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting T...
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Oranges and Sunshine
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Film · 2005 · also drama and historyFollowing in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his am...
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