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Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study (1988)

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study poster
Original title
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Directed by
Ken Musen
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
PG
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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This documentary revisits the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. College students were assigned to be guards or prisoners in a mock prison. Within days, the guards became abusive and the prisoners showed severe distress, forcing the experiment to end early.

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