Project Nim
About Project Nim
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 unflin…
James Marsh's Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film. Bob Angelini appears as Lab Tech, Bern Cohen as Dr. William Lemmon, Reagan Leonard as Stephanie LaFarge, and Nim Chimpsky as Self (archive footage).
It runs 93 minutes and was released in July 2011.
Shelv files it under animal behaviour, chimpanzee, wild animal, and linguistics. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 146 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.
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