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."
William Shatner
Lynn Carlin
Ossie Davis
Viveca Lindfors
Estelle Parsons
Roy Poole
Mike Kellin
Richard McKenzie
Fred J. Scollay
Stephen Macht
Lindsay Crouse
Charles White
Gregory Abels
Robert Burr
Tom Quinn
Billie Lou Watt
Michael Howard
Jeff Pomerantz
Damon Evans
W.T. Martin
Gary Cookson
John Travolta