Project Nim
- 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.
Project Nim is a 2011 documentary that follows the true story of Nim, a chimpanzee at the center of a groundbreaking 1970s experiment to teach an ape human language. From the filmmakers behind Man on Wire, the film traces Nim's extraordinary journey through human society and explores what his experience reveals about animal nature and human behavior.
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Wide release in United States · Rated PG-13
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Bob AngeliniLab Tech
Bern CohenDr. William Lemmon
Reagan LeonardStephanie LaFarge- Nim ChimpskySelf (archive footage)
- Stephanie LaFargeSelf
- Herbert TerraceSelf
- Wer LaFargeSelf (archive footage)
- Jenny LeeSelf
- Laura-Ann PetittoSelf
- Bill TynanSelf
- Joyce ButlerSelf
- Renne FalitzSelf
- Bob IngersollSelf
- Alyce MooreSelf
- James MahoneySelf (as Dr. James Mahoney)
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When was Project Nim released?
Project Nim was released on July 8, 2011.
What is Project Nim about?
The film documents Nim, a chimpanzee who became the subject of a landmark 1970s experiment designed to test whether an ape could learn human language if raised like a human child. It follows Nim's journey through human society and examines the impact he has on the people around him.
Who made Project Nim?
Project Nim was made by the same team behind the acclaimed documentary Man on Wire.
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