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Project Nim (2011)

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Description
Project Nim is a 2011 British documentary film. The film focuses on Project Nim, a research project that was mounted to determine whether a primate raised in close contact with humans could develop a limited "language" based on American Sign Language. The project was centered on a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky. From the Oscar-winning 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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Project Nim, 2011, James Marsh, Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Wer LaFarge, Jenny Lee, Laura-Ann Petitto, Bill Tynan, Joyce Butler, Renne Falitz, Bob Ingersoll, Alyce Moore, James Mahoney, Dr. James Mahoney, Henry Herrmann, Cleveland Amory, Marion Probst, animal film, chimpanzee, documentary
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