A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study

Nat Geo’s new three-part documentary revisits Philip Zimbardo’s controversial saga from 1971, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

The production embarks on a gripping, ticking-clock journey through the six-day Stanford Prison Experiment with incredible reveals, new subjects and a smoking-gun archive.

A new three-part Nat Geo series titled "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" takes a closer look at what happened at one of the 20th century's most infamous academic researches. It goes against the description of what went on in the experiment as told by the main researcher and repeated over and over again in media for over 50 years.

She started looking at old psychological studies exploring human nature and became fascinated by the Stanford Prison Experiment, especially in light of the summer protests in 2020 concerning police brutality.

Unlocking the Truth" is a new docuseries from Nat Geo that examines what went on behind the scenes of the infamous experiment.