Movies: Linguistics

  • 2016
    Arrival

    Arrival (2016)

    Arrival

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    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat....

    Arrival
  • 2018
    Spinning Man

    Spinning Man (2018)

    Spinning Man

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    Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance....

    Spinning Man
  • 2011
    Project Nim

    Project Nim (2011)

    Project Nim

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    From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Fol...

    Project Nim
  • 2015
    Do I Sound Gay?

    Do I Sound Gay? (2015)

    Do I Sound Gay?

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    What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery....

    Do I Sound Gay?
  • 2013
    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

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    A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation....

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth (1976)

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
  • 1985
    Yeah You Rite!

    Yeah You Rite! (1985)

    Yeah You Rite!

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    This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way they do, where the words come from, and what it means to talk with a New Orleans accent....

    Yeah You Rite!
  • 2012
    The Grammar of Happiness

    The Grammar of Happiness (2012)

    The Grammar of Happiness

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    The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous hunter- gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has taken the world of linguistics by storm. As a y...

    The Grammar of Happiness
  • 2023
    We Will Speak

    We Will Speak (2023)

    We Will Speak

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    The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2...

    We Will Speak
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976)

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976)

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
  • 1987
    American Tongues

    American Tongues (1987)

    American Tongues

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    Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other people speak. From Boston Brahmins to Black Louisiana teenagers, from Texas cowboys to New York professionals, Amer...

    American Tongues
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)

    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
  • 2015
    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power (2015)

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power

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    An in-depth look at the work and views of the man described as 'one of the greatest minds in human history'. He first emerged through his pioneering work in linguistics in the 1950s but later became a political activist and a critic of US foreign pol...

    Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power
  • 2001
    Mockingbird Don't Sing

    Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)

    Mockingbird Don't Sing

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    The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued....

    Mockingbird Don't Sing
  • 2017
    Wave

    Wave (2017)

    Wave

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    A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe....

    Wave
  • 1991
    Involuntary Conversion

    Involuntary Conversion (1991)

    Involuntary Conversion

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    This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak" language found in a variety of media sources. Drawing its title from the Pentagon's term for crash, Involu...

    Involuntary Conversion
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)

    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
  • 1976
    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis (1976)

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis

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    This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

    The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
  • 2002
    Marc Okrand on Klingon

    Marc Okrand on Klingon (2002)

    Marc Okrand on Klingon

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    Marc Okrand discusses his involvement with the Star Trek franchise and his work on inventing the Klingon and Vulcan languages....

    Marc Okrand on Klingon