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The Tenth Level

1976 American TV series or program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Tenth Level is a 1976 American made-for-television drama film movie, inspired by the Milgram experiment and starring William Shatner. It presents a social psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Tenth Level” is 1976 American TV series or program. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tenth, Level and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tenth, Level and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Tenth Level” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.