Project Nim is without a doubt one of the oddest science documentaries you’ll ever see. It is the biopic of Nim, the first chimpanzee who was taught sign language. Despite his rudimentary knowledge, ...

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Roughly a year before the beastly Nixon broke free of his own unnatural habitat, a Columbia University prof figured it’d be neat to see whether and how a chimp raised solely among humans could acquire ...

You get a bad feeling early in Project Nim, the brilliant, traumatizing documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire). Nim was a chimpanzee who—I can’t bring myself to use “that”—in 1973 became a test ...

Zookeeper isn’t the only movie about talking animals opening this weekend. But the other one, Project Nim (Roadside Attractions), a documentary from James Marsh, director of the Academy Award-winning ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...

Nearly 1,000 medical research chimps warehoused in medical labs. Dec. 10, 2012— -- Nim, a baby chimpanzee, was taken screaming from his sedated mother days after his birth in 1973 at the ...

In the early 1970s, Columbia University psychology professor Herbert Terrace speculated that if a chimpanzee were raised like a human child in a human home and taught sign language — because chimps ...

Film director James Marsh described his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire as a "heist" film. His new documentary, Project Nim, is a heist film too. It's about a chimpanzee that was taken away from ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The Nim of Project Nim is a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky (a nod to ground-breaking linguist Noam Chomsky). Why? Well, the ...