James Marsh, Project Nim

Oscar winning documentarian James Marsh (Man on Wire) tells the world’s saddest monkey tale in Project Nim. Snatched from his mother at two weeks, the chimpanzee Nim is brought to Manhattan as the subject of a Columbia University project to see if a primate could actually learn language, not just sign it, if raised as a human child. "Project Nim" made the chimp famous but once the project ended, his life for the next 20 years was a horror story, one told clearly by Marsh.

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