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.
- Programme: The Heist
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Psychology
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