Project Nim

Project Nim (2011)

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

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-07-08
  • User Rating: 6.8/10 from 126 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 33min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC Film
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
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Summary

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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Camera Michael Simmonds Director of Photography
Sound Dickon Hinchliffe Original Music Composer
Directing James Marsh Director
Editing Jinx Godfrey Editor
Production Simon Chinn Producer
Art Markus Kirschner Production Design
Writing Elizabeth Hess Novel