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  1. Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a research project that was mounted in the 1970s to determine whether a primate raised in close contact with humans would develop a limited "language" based on American Sign Language.

  2. PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. From the Oscar®-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment...

  3. Aug 12, 2011 · Project Nim: Directed by James Marsh. With Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Wer LaFarge. Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

  4. Jul 1, 2011 · Project Nim, recounted in Elizabeth Hess’s 2008 book “Nim Chimpsky, the Chimp Who Would Be Human,” was intended as a flamboyant salvo in the battles over nature versus nurture. Nim’s name was...

  5. Jul 20, 2011 · In 1973, an infant chimpanzee was taken from his mother's arms and sent to live with a human family as part of a Columbia University psychology experiment. The goal of the project was to see if...

  6. Project Nim (2011) - Official Trailer [HD] If there's a real "Planet Of The Apes" story it's the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which...

  7. Can a chimpanzee learn to speak by using sign language? Yes. But in what sense does it know what it is saying? "Project Nim," a fascinating documentary, follows the life of a chimp named Nim Chimpsky as it's raised like a human baby and then shuttled from one set of "parents" and "homes" to another.