Human Dignity - Full Moral Status - Documentaries

Project Nim
Director: James Marsh
Country of origin and year: UK, USA, 2011
The story of Nim, the chimpanzee, who became the focus of a landmark experiment in the 1970s which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.

 

The Human Experience
Director: Charles Kinanne
Country of origin and year: USA, 2008
This documentary tells the story of Jeffrey Azize and his travels as he searches for answers to the question "What does it mean to be human?". The film is divided into the three experiences which take Jeffrey and his friends to New York, Peru, and Ghana.

 

Horizon: What Makes us Human?
What is it that separates us from the rest of the apes? This is the question that Professor Alice Roberts seeks to answer in her programme 'What Makes us Human?'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036mrrj