Experimenter

About 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.

Michael Almereyda's Experimenter is a 2015 history film. At 97 minutes long, it arrived in October 2015.

The film is filed under experiment, breaking the fourth wall, psychology, and controversy.

Peter Sarsgaard stars as Stanley Milgram, Winona Ryder as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram, Jim Gaffigan as James McDonough, and Edoardo Ballerini as Paul Hollander. The screenplay is by Michael Almereyda. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

The Last Emperor, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and The Jacket make useful companions to Experimenter, all filed under biography. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 499 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.