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 ...

Devilishly talented British director James Marsh made “Man on Wire,” a marvelous documentary blending archival footage and sly re-enactments about the French wire-walker who, in 1974, stunned the ...

To conduct the study, baby Nim is taken from his mother and given to Stephanie LaFarge, a former psychology student of Dr. Terrace’s who is already raising several children of her own on the Upper ...

At the tender age of 21, Jenn Howard was already burned out and disillusioned. The day after graduating from Metairie Park Country Day School, the young singer lit out for New York to see if Project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...