Project Nim (2011)

07/08/2011 (GB) • 1h 33m

Documentary

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

Overview

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Top Billed Cast

Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

Nim Chimpsky

Self (archive footage)

Wer LaFarge

Self (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

love of animals

wild animal

chimpanzee

linguistics

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