Linguistics Movies

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...

Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has...

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...

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....

What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

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...

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

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...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

Sam decides to stop pursuing charges against her rapist and spend Thanksgiving alone on her family's Virginia farm. Her brother stages an...

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...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

What if we forgot about our nuclear waste? Behind this question is the problem of memory, that of the transmission of data over time, but also of a...

The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous...

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.