The new six-episode series will draw on the controversial study about power dynamics in a prison environment.

Participants will "enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners," a synopsis said.

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There’s a moment early on in the new documentary The Great Experiment where the camera lingers on several people asleep on a bus. It feels at once nostalgic and quietly unsettling—peaceful, but also ...

Netflix is ringing in America's 250th anniversary with a new documentary by Brian Knappenberger. The streamer will premiere a five-part documentary about the founding and future of democracy in the ...

A new movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment opens tonight, based on the famous experiment run by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, Zimbardo set up a mock prison in a basement of the Stanford ...

If you took psychology courses in college, you probably remember the "Stanford prison experiment," which monitored the behavior of 18 students assigned to play the roles of guards or inmates in a ...

Netflix is set to release an intriguing documentary series next month titled Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, which will take a closer look at Sheriff Eric Higgins’ idea to improve the lives of ...