Project Nim

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.

Trailer

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Cast and crew

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  Bob AngeliniLab Tech

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  Bern CohenDr. William Lemmon

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  Reagan LeonardStephanie LaFarge

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  Nim ChimpskySelf (archive footage)

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  Stephanie LaFargeSelf

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  Herbert TerraceSelf

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  Wer LaFargeSelf (archive footage)

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  Jenny LeeSelf

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  Laura-Ann PetittoSelf

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  Bill TynanSelf

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  Joyce ButlerSelf

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  Renne FalitzSelf

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  Bob IngersollSelf

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  Alyce MooreSelf

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  James MahoneySelf (as Dr. James Mahoney)

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  Henry HerrmannSelf

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  Cleveland AmorySelf (archive footage)

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  Marion ProbstSelf

Director

James Marsh

Writer

Elizabeth Hess

Music

Dickon Hinchliffe

Cinematography

Michael Simmonds