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 ...

"Project Nim" THREE AND A HALF STARS PG-13 for some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images. 93 minutes. The baby was taken from his mother’s arms when he was only a few ...

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 ...

The 2011 Sundance Film Festival is heading towards its final weekend, with the awards ceremony capping things off on Sunday night, and attendees are starting to head home, nursing hangovers and ski ...

Raised like a child, studied as an experiment and returned to captivity when his animal instincts surfaced, Nim Chimpsky lived a life that was as exceptional as it was heart-wrenching. From the ...

Not every homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership to PETA. Still, this documentary biopic of the ’70s chimp picked to endure an “experiment” in simian sign language and ...

Two great documentaries ("Project Nim" and "Knuckle") are joined by a sensationalistic but engaging costume drama ("Anonymous") in leading today's (Feb. 7) new batch of DVD titles. Here's a rundown of ...

NEW YORK: HBO has picked up all U.S. rights, covering broadcast, video and theatrical, for Project Nim, a documentary from the filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning story Man on Wire. Project Nim ...

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 ...

It’s official, for the second weekend in a row RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is the number one movie at the box office. So, do you have an appetite for more simian stories? How about a documentary on ...

It’s Time to Play ‘Which Humanlike Ape Was That?’Did these moments happen in ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Project Nim,’ or to Travis, the most famous ape in America?