What were Milgram’s conclusions? | Horizon

03: Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...

01: Mind Control | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley traces the sinister ways science has been used to try to control our minds, finding that its pursuit has led to...

You Do As You Are Told | Horizon

Jonathan Miller introduces a 1973 episode of Horizon, which documents the results of Stanley Milgram's study on Obedience. In an endpiece, J...

02: Emotions | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our min...

The Heist

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...

The Hospital That Didn't Care

Joel Mapp presents a special BBC investigation looking at how hundreds of patients died after what an inquiry called appalling suffering at Sta...

The Stanford Prison Experiment

In 1971, a group of American student volunteers adopted the roles of prisoners and guards in a specially controlled environment - it was quick...

Episode 6 | The People Watchers

What is the psychology of queuing? Do people perform better at sport if they are given encouragement? And how long does it take to learn how ...

Real footage from Milgram's study | Horizon

Milgram discusses his famous obedience experiment alongside actual footage from the study.

S11E01: Changing Minds | Child of Our Time

Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at si...

Case Study: Kitty Genovese | Mind Changers

When a young woman was brutally killed in an attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help. The case led to ...

How did Milgram's participants feel? | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley speaks to a participant from the original Milgram study to find out how they felt about ...

Joseph Henrich - Professor of Evolutionary Biology | HARDtalk

Is genetics or cultural conditioning the key to understanding human evolution? Stephen Sackur speaks to Profess...

Playing the Game: Taking Risks | The Learning Zone

Program about taking risks with children, growing up, learning when to develop and when to encourage the child to ''take a...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains | The Life Scientific

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the developing teenage brain.

The Mystery of the Teenage Brain | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry

Hannah and Adam investigate the strange goings on in the bodies and brains of teens as they embark o...

04: The Watchful Web | The History Of Surveillance

Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, compri...

05: Why Do I Need You?

This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.

06: Who Will We Be?

Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.

Audiences and Spectacle | Inside Culture

Do audiences matter, and what is their role? Mary talks to sports stars about how the loss of the crowd affects their performance, a...