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The Tenth Level

  • August 1976
  • 1hr

    42mins

  • Drama
  • TV Movie
  • Directed by

    Charles S. Dubin,

    Bob Markell,

    Starring

    William Shatner,

    Lynn Carlin,

    Ossie Davis,

    Viveca Lindfors

    ...

    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."