First Festival Screening – October 6, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Alice Tully Hall
Last Festival Screening – October 7, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Walter Reade Theater

Michael Almereyda’s brilliant portrait of Stanley Milgram, the social scientist whose 1961, Yale-based “obedience study” reflected back on the Holocaust and anticipated Abu Ghraib and other atrocities carried out by ordinary people who were just following orders, places its subject in an appropriately experimental cinema framework. The proverbial elephant in the room materializes on screen; Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) sometimes addresses the camera directly as if to implicate us in his studies and the unpleasant truths they reveal.

Director – Michael Almereyda

–The New York Film Festival Page