The Human Behavior Experiments

The Sundance Channel has been repeatedly running an hour-long documentary entitled, "The Human Behavior Experiments."  Despite its extremely broad title, it focuses on some famous experiments and events that emphasize the surprisingly powerful effects of situational pressures on our behavior.  The program covers such studies as the Milgram obedience experiments and the Stanford prison experiment (with great documentary footage) along with discussions of the Kitty Genovese incident, a recent fraternity hazing incident, events at the Abu Ghraib prison, and more. 

Overall, I think it's a good program.  It no doubt glosses over a lot of detail, however.  See, for example, this recent MindHacks post that suggests that the conventional wisdom about the Kitty Genovese incident greatly oversimplifies what happened.

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[The Human Behaviour Experiments]

This was posted this up online for streaming. Here is the link:
http://the-human-behavior-experiments.blogspot.com/2007/10/human-behaviour-experiments.html