Linguistics Movies
- 2016
Arrival
Arrival7.6072016HD
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...
- 2018
Spinning Man
Spinning Man5.5532018HD
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has...
- 2013
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?6.92013HD
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
- 2011
Project Nim
Project Nim6.82011HD
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...
- 2001
Mockingbird Don't Sing
Mockingbird Don't Sing6.42001HD
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...
- 1976
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity91976HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
- 2015
Do I Sound Gay?
Do I Sound Gay?5.72015HD
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.
- 2017
Wave
Wave5.12017HD
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
- 2021
What She Said
What She Said6.72021HD
Sam decides to stop pursuing charges against her rapist and spend Thanksgiving alone on her family's Virginia farm. Her brother stages an...
- 2023
We Will Speak
We Will Speak102023HD
The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...
- 2015
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power102015HD
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...
- 2024
At a Traffic Light
At a Traffic Light02024HD
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...
- 2019
CodeSwitching
CodeSwitching02019HD
CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...
- 2020
To Save a Language
To Save a Language02020HD
Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...
- 1976
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology91976HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
- 1987
American Tongues
American Tongues71987HD
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....
- 2006
K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You
K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You02006HD
The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...
- 2012
The Grammar of Happiness
The Grammar of Happiness82012HD
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous...
- 1976
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth91976HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
- 1976
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis91976HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...