This great unethical psychology experiment is famous enough to warrant a movie. Many of you may not have heard of this film, but it is a model of accuracy that brings up truly powerful historical questions. It’s the Stanford Prison Experiment. We can actually learn from this movie about what the experiment constituted. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: good "Based on a True Story" movies: https://youtu.be/u8MtKb3vIfI how to research history: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Historical reviews: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/... http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainm... http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/07/... http://www.newsweek.com/stanford-pris... http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor... top 10 list of unethical experiments: http://listverse.com/2008/09/07/top-1... A good argument for film directors as historians may be found in Natalie Davis, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), 1-15 and 121-136. https://amzn.to/2udiKkU ------------------------------------------------------------ contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ wiki: The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 American thriller film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and written by Tim Talbott. The film stars Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Thirlby, and Nelsan Ellis. The plot tells the story of the Stanford prison experiment in which students play the role of a prisoner or a prison guard conducted at Stanford University under supervision of psychology professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971.[3] The project was announ