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The Game of Death: Inflict pain to win a TV game show? Controversial documentary examines whether people will administer potentially fatal electric shocks to win a game show based on the famous Stanley Milgram experiments.
The Game of Death: Inflict pain to win a TV game show? Controversial documentary examines whether people will administer potentially fatal electric shocks to win a game show based on the famous Stanley Milgram experiments.

Research the Milgram experiment, read about the game show “The Game of Death“.

What ideas about obedience to authority and societal dependance is Shakespeare suggesting in Hamlet?

Watch the CBC documentary.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/video.html?ID=1851450627

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2011/gameofdeath/

 

February 2013 Update:

I am unable to find an online version of the entire video at CBC.CA

I did find a BBC article with audio clips.

The Perils of Obedience

D. Sader

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