Language Movies

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

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

A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.

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

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...

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

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests,...

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.

It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get...

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

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...

At what point in our evolution did we start talking? To paint, play music and travel? When did we build our first imaginary worlds? When was the need...

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

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

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...