Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazi's, 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."

Starring:

William Shatner, Lynn Carlin, Ossie Davis, Stephen Macht, Lindsay Crouse, Mike Kellin, Viveca Lindfors, Estelle Parsons, Gregory Abels, Robert Burr, Gary Cookson, Damon Evans, W.T. Martin, Jeff Pomerantz, Billie Lou Watt

Genre:

Drama