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 ...

James Marsh’s new documentary, “Project Nim,” is based on a true story. So is the 1987 feature “Project X.” But in spite of their similarity in plot — a chimpanzee is taught American sign language as ...

Herbert Terrace, a Columbia University professor who in 1973 launched an experiment to teach a chimpanzee sign language, only seems like the villain of the documentary "Project Nim." Nearly everyone ...

How did you become involved with “Project Nim”? Well actually it starts with a book written by Elizabeth Hess [“Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human”] which was published in 2008 that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cast: Nim Chimpsky, Professor Herbert Terrace, Stephanie Lafarge, Jenny Lee. Director: James Marsh (Man on Wire, Wisconsin Death Trip). Project Nim, the true tale of a scientific experiment that saw a ...

Project Nim is a documentary about an ape. A hairy, crap flinging ape. What do I care about an ape? A chimp, no less. The type you used to see wearing work trousers in PG Tips adverts. The story of ...