Linguistics Movies

  • 2016
    Arrival

    Arrival

    Arrival

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    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...

    Arrival
  • 2018
    Spinning Man

    Spinning Man

    Spinning Man

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    Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has...

    Spinning Man
  • 2013
    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

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    A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
  • 2011
    Project Nim

    Project Nim

    Project Nim

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    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...

    Project Nim
  • 2001
    Mockingbird Don't Sing

    Mockingbird Don't Sing

    Mockingbird Don't Sing

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    The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for...

    Mockingbird Don't Sing
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
  • 2015
    Do I Sound Gay?

    Do I Sound Gay?

    Do I Sound Gay?

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    What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.

    Do I Sound Gay?
  • 2017
    Wave

    Wave

    Wave

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    A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

    Wave
  • 2021
    What She Said

    What She Said

    What She Said

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    Sam decides to stop pursuing charges against her rapist and spend Thanksgiving alone on her family's Virginia farm. Her brother stages an...

    What She Said
  • 2023
    We Will Speak

    We Will Speak

    We Will Speak

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    The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...

    We Will Speak
  • 2015
    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power

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    An in-depth look at the work and views of the man described as 'one of the greatest minds in human history'. He first emerged through his pioneering...

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power
  • 2024
    At a Traffic Light

    At a Traffic Light

    At a Traffic Light

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    We all have a dream... Nelson's dream is to learn how to read. He works at a traffic light in Maputo selling car products to people who stop. Every...

    At a Traffic Light
  • 2019
    CodeSwitching

    CodeSwitching

    CodeSwitching

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    CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...

    CodeSwitching
  • 2020
    To Save a Language

    To Save a Language

    To Save a Language

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    Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...

    To Save a Language
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
  • 1987
    American Tongues

    American Tongues

    American Tongues

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    Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other people speak....

    American Tongues
  • 2006
    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

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    The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...

    K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You
  • 2012
    The Grammar of Happiness

    The Grammar of Happiness

    The Grammar of Happiness

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    The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous...

    The Grammar of Happiness
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    91976HD

    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    91976HD

    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis