Language Movies

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

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

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

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

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

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

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...

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

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

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

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

Steven, a pupil in a special-needs class, learns that his school has won a trip to Alcabideche, Portugal. He is overjoyed to get the chance to...

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.

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

“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...

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...