Language Movies

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

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...

Robert Brammel, a private English teacher who develops an unusual relationship with a new student.

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

How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...

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

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...

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

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

“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...

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

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...

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

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....