Unlocking the Cage
Follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans, by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a ‘thing’ with no rights to a ‘person’ with legal protections.
- Director
- Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 91 min
- Theme
- Animals studies, Ethics, Social Sciences, Law studies, World of Science
- Type Film
- Documentary
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Producer
- Chris Hegedus, Frazer Pennebaker, Rosadel Varela
- Editor
- Pax Wassermann