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Arrival (2016)
7.6 / 10

Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery

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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Spinning Man (2018)
5.547 / 10

Mystery, Thriller, Crime

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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Project Nim (2011)
6.8 / 10

Documentary

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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Do I Sound Gay? (2015)
5.7 / 10

Documentary

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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Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
6.4 / 10

Drama

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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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, Animation

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

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Wave (2017)
3.8 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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

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CodeSwitching (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

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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To Save a Language (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

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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The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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What She Said (2021)
6.7 / 10

Comedy, Drama

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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The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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We Will Speak (2023)
10 / 10

Documentary

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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The Grammar of Happiness (2012)
8 / 10

Documentary

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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Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power (2015)
10 / 10

Documentary, History

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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The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics (1976)
9 / 10

Documentary, Music

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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Yeah You Rite! (1985)
8 / 10

Documentary

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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