A few films into their Disneynature movie-making experience, producer-directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, veterans of the BBC's acclaimed "Planet Earth," figure they're finally getting ...
Much of the advance publicity for “Chimp Crazy,” a new four-part HBO documentary series, has been playing up its connection to “Tiger King,” the Netflix docuseries that introduced viewers to the ...
In 2009, the city of Stamford made headlines when Travis, a chimpanzee, assaulted a woman — severing multiple body parts including her fingers, eyes, nose and lips. The incident left Charla Nash, 55 ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Part of the short documentary lineup at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival is "Pant Hoot." As the world’s chimpanzee population dwindles in the wild, one man risks ...
Lucy the Chimpanzee’s story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane, bought the fuzzy primate from a ...
In “Mama,” directed by Pablo de la Chica, Mama Zawadi, a caregiver at a chimpanzee sanctuary, where she and the chimps—both victims of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—help ...
A Missouri woman who starred in the HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy” has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after she lied that a movie star primate that she was accused of mistreating ...
The new HBO docuseries follows Tonia Haddix's efforts at hiding Tonka the chimp from authorities after a judge ordered that the animal be turned over to an animal sanctuary. Viewers are going bananas ...
Eric Goode's new four-hour project tells an only-somewhat-wild, generally sad story of a celebrity chimp, his obsessive handler and Alan Cumming. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic With the ...