Does anyone know where I can find video of the Milgram experiments? I don't know why I'm obsessed with this tonight, I'm not teaching the Holocaust until next semester.

 

I've tried Youtube, but all I can find is reenactments. I'd prefer the original tapes made by Milgram.  The reenactments don't have the same power.

 

And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, go read this and prepare to be horrified. "I was just following orders"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

I've read about these and even seen a documentary on cable (probably The History Channel) within the last month or so.

 

Unfortunately, I can't find links to where I read about them.

I know this was on a "Discovering Psychology" video hosted by Phillip Zimbardo.  I have absolutely no idea if you can find it online, though.

Hmmm. If the History Channel did a documentary, I can ask my media specialist to find it. I'll ask her tomorrow.

 

Thanks!

Oh my goodness!!! I'm going to be horrified by this for a very long time now. This is just... how can I never have heard about this? I'm usually good at finding out about messed up stuff people do to each other.

 

 

This also reminds me of the film "The Wave", where a teacher does an experiment on a group of kids in his school to prove to them how easy it is to be led and, even more importantly, misled. I don't know if anyone has ever seen this, but it's one of those films they show in every 8th grade history class in Norway. http://imdb.com/title/tt0083316/

Oooh! I saw that in eighth grade too!  I'm thinking about showing that next semester too. We tend to watch a lot of movies in my class, since so many of my kids read poorly.

Heh, didn't know there was a movie about The Wave. Read the book in 6th grade though.

I saw "The Wave" in a ninth grade English class.  I had no idea it was so widely shown.

It was an "Afterschool Special". I'm pretty sure there are Amish people living without television sets that have seen it.

Yay, I'm not the only one! This makes me happy. It's a very good film, as well, although the quality of it may be bad since it's been so long since it was made.