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The Experiment
2010 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Paul T. Scheuring
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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A reality TV show tried, because they have more practical ethics requirements than academic institutions, and were able to run the study as long as everyone agreed to be there and there was no sign of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment
Also, how do you italicize text in your comment?
I remember this being in the news but I especially remember the comedy movie that was very loosely based on the real experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EWikCCfHJw
The Experiment (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997152/) is a fictional version of the Zimbardo study with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
There is also a German movie (and an American direct-to-video remake) inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment_%282010_film%29
Very interesting detail: The German movie escalates the violence far beyond what happend in the real experiment (to the point that the "guards" capture some of the scientists and several people are killed), and Philip Zimbardo got a court order prohibiting the advertising of the film as "based on a true story".