Language Movies

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

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...

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...

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...

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

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

Joe learns the importance of using new words.

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

The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five....

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...

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

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

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

"Speedball" Mike Bailey pulls back the curtain on the artistry of pro wrestling while fighting his way through a busy week of independent shows.

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

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

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...