Movies that will make us question our world and ourselves

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Season 3, Episode 6 The episode is a murder mystery. Three Detectives try to solve the inexplicable deaths of people who were all the target of social media with the hashtag "#DeathTo". British, 2016

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The show contains considerable political and social commentary, exploring topical issues such as the alt-right, the Me Too movement, online harassment, and fake news. As well as starting again in a new law firm with its own office politics to deal with, longtime Democrat Diane Lockhart must navigate a world she hardly recognizes, becoming increasingly troubled by Trump-era politics and the actions of his administration (mainly in Season 3). American, 2017-20

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Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "They took your data. Then they took control." The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. American, 2019

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A series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants -men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education- to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner." These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real. The experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, albeit reluctantly. The experiments began in July 1961, in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular contemporary question: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" The experiment was repeated many times around the globe, with fairly consistent results.

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A dramatic simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment and one of the best known psychology experiments ever undertaken, in which healthy college students are transformed into unstable prisoners and brutal prison guards -within days- by the power of the situation in which they found themselves. American, 1971, experiment conducted by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo

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A documentary that shows how the American "justice" system works, by highliting the inequalities -based on either income, race or gender- which can lead someone in or out of jail. American, 2018

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Two FBI agents, fighting the departmental stigma of backroom boys - those who try to complicate the status quo of simple Means, Motive, Opportunity (MMO) of crime-solving with academics - work to develop an innovative investigative field incorporating psychology, anthropology and sociology as a method to reveal the motive. They acknowledge classic crime-solving - MMO - as no longer sufficient because criminality is becoming more complicated as Motive graduates from need and greed to inexplicable and irrational reasons. They theorize applying deeper psychological evaluation will posit new questions. Simply, asking Why will lead to the Who. This series focuses on the development by two men, two agents, of a new criminal field and does so through story lines of visiting the sociopathic mind. American, 2017-9, based on the book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit (by Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas)