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 ...

As soon as the first screening at Sundance was over, I tweeted that “Project Nim” will undoubtedly be one of my favorite films of 2011. Everyone thought I had festival fever and was too excited right ...

The devilishly talented British director James Marsh made “Man on Wire,” a marvelous documentary blending archival footage and sly reenactments about the French wire-walker who, in 1974, stunned the ...

Researchers may have taught a chimp named Nim to communicate via sign language back in the mid-’70s, but it was humans who learned the most from the experiment, as detailed in director James Marsh‘s ...

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 ...

Devilishly talented British director James Marsh made “Man on Wire,” a marvelous documentary blending archival footage and sly re-enactments about the French wire-walker who, in 1974, stunned the ...

James Marsh first became a household name in the States after winning the 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary for his film Man on Wire, a “heist” picture about the French tightrope walker, Philippe Petit, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Beyond all its other selling points, "Project Nim" is quite simply a gripping story well told. We've become so used to documentaries that preach to the converted that it's hard to remember the last ...

Two movies about the dangers of experimenting with chimpanzees are out in theaters right now, the Sci-Fi, mega blockbuster “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and the science documentary about the first ...

The documentary Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee raised like a human and taught sign language as part of a controversial experiment. Mick Brown talks to the those who knew Nim best Nim with ...