Language Movies

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

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the mind working, assigning labels and names to...

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

“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the...

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

The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five....

The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the...

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

In a world embracing change, Ajeng distances herself from her Javanese roots. She explores the consequences as she grapples with the clash between...

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...

How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...

A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive.

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

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...

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...