Project Nim

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

Project Nim — Plot

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.

• Release date
• July 8, 2011
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• James Marsh

Project Nim — Cast

Bob Angelini Lab Tech Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon 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