Project Nim

Project Nim

Release date : July 8, 2011
Runtime : 1h 33m
Countries of origin : United Kingdom /
Original Language : English /
Director : James Marsh /
Writers : Elizabeth Hess /
Production companies : BBC Film / Red Box Films / Passion Pictures /
July 8, 2011 1h 33m United Kingdom Documentary English More
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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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  • title:Project Nim
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 2011
  • Runtime:1h 33m
  • Genres: Documentary ·
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom ·
  • Original Language: English ·
  • Director: James Marsh /
  • Writers: Elizabeth Hess ·
  • Production companies: BBC Film · Red Box Films · Passion Pictures ·
  • 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.
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