Project Nim (2011)

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.

Release Date : Jul 08, 2011

Runtime : 1h 33m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : BBC Film, Red Box Films, Passion Pictures

Countries : United Kingdom, United States of America

Keywords : love of animals, wild animal, chimpanzee, linguistics