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 reaso...
- 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 show...
- 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 nearly...
- 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 anal...
- 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 intervention...
- 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 w...
- 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 we...
- 2019
CodeSwitching
CodeSwitching02019HD
CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary desegregat...
- 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 tribe,...
- 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 anal...
- 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. F...
- 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 hun...
- 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 anal...
- 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 anal...