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"Compliance" is a great movie. I suggest a few more:

"The Stanford Prison Experiment" (2015)

Based on the infamous true story, which also inspired the German film "Das Experiment (2001)" which was remade in the US as "The Experiment (2010)." The 2015 is most true to the actual events.

"Experimenter" (2015)

A biopic based on Stanley Milgram, who conducted the 1961 "Milgram experiment" at Yale in the early 1960s. A documentary film, "Obedience," was made by Stanley Milgram, who tested his subjects to measure how far ordinary people would go to obey authority figures and inflict pain on people.

The question is always "How did the Nazis do it?" And the answer always seems to come back: "It was easy."

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This is such good writing. Succinct, clear and incisive. Thank you.

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