“Evil is a human artefact,” says distinguished Iraqi Kanan Makiya. Award-winning director Rex Bloomstein (The Gathering and Human Rights, Human Wrongs) examines the validity of this statement. Are we born evil, or is it something we become? <br/> This major three-part series mixes disturbing footage from massacres in Rwanda and Bosnia with interviews with Argentinian torturers, American serial killers and former aides to Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein. <br/> A detailed examination of the doomed ‘Stanford Experiment’, where students were given roles of prisoners and guards as part of a psychological study, proves that evil behaviour is part of the human psyche, not alien to it. As Dr Philip Zimbardo, the experiment’s creator, says, “The simulation of evil became evil itself.”
“Evil is a human artefact,” says distinguished Iraqi Kanan Makiya. Award-winning director Rex Bloomstein (The Gathering and Human Rights, Human Wrongs) examines the validity of this statement. Are we born evil, or is it something we become?
This major three-part series mixes disturbing footage from massacres in Rwanda and Bosnia with interviews with Argentinian torturers, American serial killers and former aides to Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein.
A detailed examination of the doomed ‘Stanford Experiment’, where students were given roles of prisoners and guards as part of a psychological study, proves that evil behaviour is part of the human psyche, not alien to it. As Dr Philip Zimbardo, the experiment’s creator, says, “The simulation of evil became evil itself.”
