

Project Nim
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
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.
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- Language
- English
- 1970s
- love of animals
- chimpanzee
- wild animal
- linguistics
- animal behaviour
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival20 Jan 2011
- TheatricalPG-138 Jul 2011
FranceFR
- Theatrical11 Jan 2012
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1212 Aug 2011
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical129 Aug 2012
SpainES
- Theatrical1225 Jan 2013
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Project Nim was released on 8 July 2011.
Audience reviews
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CinemaSerf
6/5/2025
Now I know that hindsight is a marvellous thing, but quite how anyone could ever have thought that playing God with another animate creature like this would ever be justifiable is beyond me. The scientists here may have been well meaning enough, but I don’t see how the writing on the wall could ever have been different for the chimp whom they called “Nim Chimpsky”. Wrested from his mother at birth, he is “adopted” li…
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