The Heist

Duration: 48'48''

Synopsis

Derren Brown recruits participants to attend a ''motivational seminar'' where he manipulates them into robbing a security van in broad daylight. A reenactment of a powerful experiment conducted by Stanley Milgrim in 1963 to look at how normal people can commit atrocious acts.

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