Documentary Description
What makes ordinary people commit extreme acts of violence?
In a thought-provoking and disturbing journey, Michael Portillo
investigates one of the darker sides of human nature. He discovers what
it is like to inflict pain and is driven to the edge of violence
himself in an extreme sleep deprivation study.
He meets men for whom violence has become an addiction and
ultimately discovers that each of us could be inherently more violent
than we think, and watches a replication of one of the most
controversial studies in history, the Milgram study. Will study
participants be willing to administer a seemingly lethal electric shock
to someone they think is an innocent bystander?
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