Linguist Movies

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 snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years....

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

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...

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at...

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan...

"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the...