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Project Nim

Project Nim

2011 1h 33m · Documentary · ★ 6.9

Project Nim

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

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.

Director James Marsh

Top Billed Cast

Bob Angelini

Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen

Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard

Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

Nim Chimpsky

Self (archive footage)

Stephanie LaFarge

Self

Herbert Terrace

Self

Wer LaFarge

Self (archive footage)

Jenny Lee

Self

Laura-Ann Petitto

Self

Bill Tynan

Self

Joyce Butler

Self

Renne Falitz

Self

Bob Ingersoll

Self

Alyce Moore

Self

James Mahoney

Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)

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Status Released

Original Language en

Budget $0

Revenue $0

Keywords

1970s love of animals chimpanzee wild animal linguistics animal behaviour