Project Nim
“The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.”
2011•PG-13•1h 33m•6.9•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
James Marsh
Languages
English
Studio
BBC Film
Cast
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
Stephanie LaFarge
Self
Herbert Terrace
Self
Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
Jenny Lee
Self
Laura-Ann Petitto
Self
Bill Tynan
Self
Joyce Butler
Self
Renne Falitz
Self
Bob Ingersoll
Self
Alyce Moore
Self
James Mahoney
Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)
Production
Company
BBC Film
Company
Red Box Films
Company
Passion Pictures
Company
Icon Productions
Company
UK Film Council
Producer
Simon Chinn
Producer
Prudence Arndt
Producer
Nancy Abraham
Recommended
7.6
Ghost Elephants
2026
6.9
Sidney
2022
7.8
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.7
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
7.3
WHAM!
2023
6.5
Heart of a Dog
2015
7.7
The Last Waltz
1978
5.9
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
7.5
The Last Repair Shop
2024
7.3
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
2021
6.7
Shark Whisperer
2025
7.3
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019
6.5
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2019
6.2
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
7.9
Blackfish
2013
6.8
Bettie Page Reveals All
2013
7.8
Being James Bond
2021
8.1
Queen: Days of Our Lives
2011
7.2
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020
Similar Movies
10
Planet Without Apes
2021
Das Zugunglück von Radevormwald – Leben mit der Katastrophe
2021
Return To Retro
2025
7
1974, l'alternance Giscard
2019
7.9
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
2025
6.7
The Meerkats
2008
The 1970s Dinner Party
2023
One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps
2003
7
Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002
7.1
March of the Penguins
2005
Secrets & Deals
2022
Wolves Return
2019
9
The Pantanal's Rebel Lake
2019
5.3
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
6.8
Disco: Spinning The Story
2005
6.9
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Marc Okrand on Klingon
2002
8.6
Lion: The Rise and Fall of the Marsh Pride
2022
Twinkl
2008
5.2
There Is No Authority But Yourself
2006