Project Nim
“The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.”
6.8
2011
1h 33m
Documentary
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.
Key Crew
Director
James Marsh
Producers
Simon Chinn
Prudence Arndt
Nancy Abraham
Cinematography
Michael Simmonds
Music
Dickon Hinchliffe
Cast (27)
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
