From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth a...
An in-depth look at the work and views of the man described as 'one of the greatest minds in human h...

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film se...

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.
Marc Okrand discusses his involvement with the Star Trek franchise and his work on inventing the Kli...

Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal...

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn ...

A documentary about returning the swift fox, the smallest of Canada's native foxes, into its origina...

Squirrels are among the most widely known and recognized mammals. In many parts of the world they gl...

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students w...

Ida, the grandniece of Simona Kossak, travels to the Bialowieza Forest at the Polish-Belarussian bor...

In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior o...

The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic en...

Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing...

Life is an adventure - especially for a newborn animal who has so much to learn. "Growing Up Wild" t...

Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, includin...

Documentary about chimps in Gombe.

Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this imm...