Language Movies

CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when...

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes...

A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...

For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discussions. For some, it’s an institution which...

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...

The mysterious song of humpback whales fascinates researchers worldwide. But why do the whales sing? Underwater camerawoman Christina Karliczek...

The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia -...

Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

Always the last to know, filmmaker Jon Beaton learns of his autism late in life – a diagnosis that brings liberation and mourning in equal...

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.