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The Tenth Level

The Tenth Level

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 26, 1976

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

51%

Original Title

The Tenth Level

Production Companies

CBS Studios

Director

Charles S. Dubin

Description

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."