Language Movies

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

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing Gers...

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

“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 last fluent Nakota speak...

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 safeguar...

"Se ti sabir" is a film reflecting on language, intelligence, and our relationship with new technologies and non-human species.

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

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

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

The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love affair with the English language has reached feve...

Joe learns the importance of using new words.