Linguistics Movies

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....

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...

We all have a dream... Nelson's dream is to learn how to read. He works at a traffic light in Maputo selling car products to people who stop. Every...

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...

What if we forgot about our nuclear waste? Behind this question is the problem of memory, that of the transmission of data over time, but also of a...

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

Nelly Arcan published her autobiographical novel *Folle* in 2004. She took her own life in 2009. She died because she was made to feel crazy. Because...

The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...