Learning on ScreenFive Steps to Tyranny
- Synopsis
- This film analyses the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how easily ordinary people may be manipulated into compliance with "authority", into silence before criminality, and even how easily most people may be coerced into performing genuinely evil acts. Evocative of much that is happening in the world today. Contributors include Professor Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the classic Stanford ‘prison’ experiment. (59 minutes)
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 2011
- Year of production
- 2000
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC4 on 20/9/2004
- Subjects
- Social Studies; Psychology
- Keywords
- conformity; leadership skills; political movements; social psychology; Zimbardo, Philip
Online availability
- URI
- http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=237
- Price
- subscription
- Delivery
- Streamed
Credits
- Director
- Elizabeth McIntyre
- Contributor
- Philip Zimbardo
Distributor
- Name
Documentary Film Network
- http://www.documentary-film.net/contact.php
- Web
- http://www.documentary-film.net/ External site opens in new window
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