Keyword Linguistics
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2016
Arrival
Arrival7.60 2016 HD
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...
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2018
Spinning Man
Spinning Man5.60 2018 HD
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has...
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2011
Project Nim
Project Nim6.80 2011 HD
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...
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2013
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?6.90 2013 HD
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
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2001
Mockingbird Don't Sing
Mockingbird Don't Sing6.40 2001 HD
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...
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1976
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity9.00 1976 HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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2015
Do I Sound Gay?
Do I Sound Gay?5.70 2015 HD
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.
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2023
We Will Speak
We Will Speak10.00 2023 HD
The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...
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1976
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology9.00 1976 HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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2020
To Save a Language
To Save a Language1 2020 HD
Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...
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1976
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics9.00 1976 HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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1976
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax9.00 1976 HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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2019
CodeSwitching
CodeSwitching1 2019 HD
CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...
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1976
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis9.00 1976 HD
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...
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2015
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power10.00 2015 HD
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...
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1985
Yeah You Rite!
Yeah You Rite!8.00 1985 HD
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...
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2017
Wave
Wave5.10 2017 HD
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
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2012
The Grammar of Happiness
The Grammar of Happiness8.00 2012 HD
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous...
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2021
What She Said
What She Said6.70 2021 HD
Sam decides to stop pursuing charges against her rapist and spend Thanksgiving alone on her family's Virginia farm. Her brother stages an...
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1987
American Tongues
American Tongues7.00 1987 HD
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....
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2020
Crash Course Linguistics
Crash Course Linguistics1 2020 HD
Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will...
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1986
Wordplay
Wordplay0.50 1986 HD
Wordplay is an American game show which ran on NBC from December 29, 1986 to September 4, 1987. It was hosted by Tom Kennedy and announced by Charlie...
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2013
Spell-Mageddon
Spell-Mageddon1 2013 HD
Spell-Mageddon is an American spelling bee game show on ABC Family and is hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro. It premiered on July 24, 2013. Its season finale...