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The Tenth Level

1976 • 1h42m Drama, TV Movie

Rating

5.1/10

Popularity

1

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."

Details

Director

Charles S. Dubin

Screenplay

George Bellak

Cast

William Shatner

Lynn Carlin

Ossie Davis

Release date

8/26/1976

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

6