Project Nim

Synopsis

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.

Where to watch (US)

Cast

Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

NC

Nim Chimpsky

Self (archive footage)

SL

Stephanie LaFarge

Self

HT

Herbert Terrace

Self

WL

Wer LaFarge

Self (archive footage)

JL

Jenny Lee

Self

LP

Laura-Ann Petitto

Self

BT

Bill Tynan

Self

JB

Joyce Butler

Self

RF

Renne Falitz

Self

BI

Bob Ingersoll

Self

AM

Alyce Moore

Self