Project Nim (2011)1h33
Documentary
Director James Marsh (6.6 avg)
Also directed The Theory of Everything, Man on Wire, King of Thieves, and 14 more
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.
Where to watch
- Prime Video
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Cast
Bob Angelini
Bern Cohen
Reagan Leonard- Nim Chimpsky
- Stephanie LaFarge
- Herbert Terrace
- Wer LaFarge
- Jenny Lee
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