Project Nim

The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark experiment in the 1970s. Taken out of his natural en... (more)

The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark experiment in the 1970s. Taken out of his natural environment from birth, Nim was raised and nurtured like a human child to discover if he could learn to communicate with language. 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. (less)