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Project Nim

Project Nim

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

20116.81h 33m

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.

Directed by James Marsh
Written by Elizabeth Hess
Produced by Simon Chinn, Prudence Arndt, Nancy Abraham
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Top Cast

Bob Angelini

Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen

Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard

Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

N

Nim Chimpsky

Self (archive footage)

S

Stephanie LaFarge

Self

H

Herbert Terrace

Self

W

Wer LaFarge

Self (archive footage)

J

Jenny Lee

Self

L

Laura-Ann Petitto

Self

B

Bill Tynan

Self

Themes & Keywords

1970slove of animalswild animalchimpanzeelinguisticsanimal behaviour

About Project Nim

Project Nim is a documentary film released in 2011 exploring themes of 1970s, love of animals, wild animal, chimpanzee, linguistics, animal behaviour. Directed by James Marsh, it stars Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard. 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.

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