Editor's note: This film would be fun to watch with family as it is much more family-friendly than most other films I tend to watch, and I assume most kids would love this movie full of animal life.

Project X (1987). A Wisconsin graduate student was put on a funded research program to help train a chimpanzee to communicate with humans using sign language often used by blind people. Three years into the research program the funding by the NSF suddenly gets cut off, and she is forced to give back the chimpanzee. Hesitant to do so, yet out of her control, she offers to give back the chimpanzee on the condition it would go to a Houston zoo. As it turned out, the chimpanzee is relocated to a top secret project, known as "Project X", at the US Air Force base in Lockridge, Florida. The top secret project trains chimpanzees for flight simulation, only with a deadly twist. When an Airman relieved from previous duty over a scandal is re-assigned to Project X at the Air Force base, he notices this chimpanzee is unique and notices he can communicate using sign language. When he later finds out all these chimpanzees are being used as cannon fodder for this top secret experiment, he goes on an endeavor to find out who previously trained the chimpanzee, and to warn her, risking severe legal consequences. The previous trainer does her best to find out what is happening to the chimpanzees and why, and they both are about to risk everything to shut this questionably inhumane Project X down to save the chimpanzees.