A new documentary from the makers of Man on Wire tells the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was the subject of a groundbreaking experiment in the 1970s that intended to demonstrate that an ape could learn to speak with language if trained and fostered in the same way as a human kid. It is an unvarnished and unsentimental history of an animal that we attempted to make human by following Nim's incredible journey through human society and the lasting impact he has on the people he meets along the way. His true nature-and, therefore, our own-is revealed to us in a way that is both amusing and disturbing at the same time.
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A new documentary from the makers of Man on Wire tells the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was the subject of a groundbreaking experiment in the 1970s that intended to demonstrate that an ape could learn to speak with language if trained and fostered in the same way as a human kid. It is an unvarnished and unsentimental history of an animal that we attempted to make human by following Nim's incredible journey through human society and the lasting impact he has on the people he meets along the way. His true nature-and, therefore, our own-is revealed to us in a way that is both amusing and disturbing at the same time.
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