Language Movies

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

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

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

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...

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...

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...

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

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

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

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

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

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

A Carefree Artist confronts The Pioneer of Odia literature Byaasakabi Fakir Mohan, to lament about the current state of the Odia Language and how it...

In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvdalska) is spoken. This documentary...

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

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