
The Experiment was a documentary series broadcast on BBC television in 2002 produced by Steve Reicher and Alex Haslam in which 15 men are randomly selected to be either "prisoner" or guard, contained in a simulated prison over an eight-day period. “The BBC Prison Study explores the social and psychological consequences of putting people in groups of unequal power. It examines when people accept inequality and when they challenge it”. The documentary presented the findings of what subsequently became known as The BBC Prison Study
Air Date: 2002-05-11
The story of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, a psychological exercise designed to examine the nature of good...
Air Date: 2002-05-14
The prisoners start to pick off weak guards, the most powerful prisoner is sentenced to solitary confinement, and the...
Air Date: 2002-05-15
A new prisoner arrives, a master set of keys is stolen, and the two most forceful prisoners come head-to-head in a sh...
Air Date: 2002-05-21
The oppressive conditions are wearing down the patience of some of the prisoners, whilst the anxiety of the guards is...
Air Date: 2002-05-22
Twelve prisoners and guards join together to form a new and just society but after only a few hours four of them laun...