Where to Watch Project Nim (2011) (Legally)

Where to watch “Project Nim” (2011) legally online? See US options first, with English-region fallbacks.

What to expect (spoiler-free)

Here’s what to expect from “ (2011), without spoilers.

Expect a Documentary blend, with a runtime close to 93 minutes.

Cast highlights include Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard, Nim Chimpsky.

For families, checking the local age rating is recommended before watching.

Topics & keywords

1970s, love of animals, chimpanzee, wild animal, linguistics, animal behaviour

Official trailer

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Plot

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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