Project Nim
“The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.”
2011 · 1 h 33 min
Directed by 
James Marsh
James MarshCast
Nim Chimpsky Stephanie LaFarge Herbert Terrace Wer LaFarge Jenny Lee Laura-Ann Petitto
Credits
Written by: Elizabeth Hess
Plot
A documentary on Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised like a human child in an experiment of language, and his later life, in a moving look at human-animal relations.
Sinekatalog’s take
A moving and troubling documentary.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (8,762 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Man on Wire 2008 · James Marsh · IMDb 7.7 · Same director
- HyperNormalisation 2016 · Adam Curtis · IMDb 8.2 · Same movement
- Two Years at Sea 2011 · Ben Rivers · IMDb 6.8 · Same movement
- Sisters in Law 2005 · Kim Longinotto · IMDb 7.3 · Same movement
- Nostalgia for the Light 2010 · Patricio Guzmán · IMDb 7.6 · Same movement
- Encounters at the End of the World 2007 · Werner Herzog · IMDb 7.7 · Same movement