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Project Nim (2011)

Directed by James Marsh

Documentary | History

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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.

Rated PG-13 | Length 93 minutes

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Bob Angelini | Bern Cohen | Reagan Leonard | Nim Chimpsky | Stephanie LaFarge | Herbert Terrace | Wer LaFarge | Jenny Lee | Laura-Ann Petitto | Bill Tynan | Joyce Butler | Renne Falitz | Bob Ingersoll | Alyce Moore | James Mahoney | Henry Herrmann | Cleveland Amory | Marion Probst | Chris Byrne | Anna May Marsh | Sarah Sakaan | Dennis Lauricella | Robert Nesi | Scarlett Bermingham | Mike Devoe | Michael S. LePera | Peter Elliott

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