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The Stanford Prison Experiment

They were given 2 weeks. It lasted 6 days.

Rating 6.8 / 10Release July 17, 2015Runtime 122 min

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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