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    Youth Without Youth (2007)

    A professor (Tim Roth) becomes a fugitive after a cataclysmic incident prior to World War II.

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    Movies

    My Fair Lady (1964)

    Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit about an English professor who teaches a cockney...

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    Princess Caraboo (1994)

    An 1817 English village questions the authenticity of a stranger (Phoebe Cates) conveying she's a...

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    Nell (1994)

    Two doctors (Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson) observe and try to communicate with a wild woodswoman...

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    The Linguists

    Specialists document languages in Siberia, India and Bolivia that are on the verge of extinction.

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    People

    Elaine Britten

    Elaine Britten appeared in the movies Strong Language and Naked.

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    People

    Baldomero Caceres

    Baldomero Caceres appeared in the movies The Language of Foxes and Crackdown.

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    People

    Second Language

    Second Language performed for the movie Scarred.

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    Tres Pajaros

    Gustavo is a brilliant ambitious young man. Mariel is a girl of disquieting beauty who is forced to...

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    Beautiful Ohio

    An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.

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    Bon Cop, Bad Cop

    Two policemen (Colm Feore, Patrick Huard) from different Canadian provinces must work together to...

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    Frontier

    Deep in the heart of Eastern Europe, nestled at the base of the Carpathian Mountains lies a...

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    Pootie Tang (2001)

    Although he speaks an indecipherable language, a superhero (Lance Crouther) protects children from a...

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    Word Wars (2004)

    A look at the obsessive world of competitive Scrabble.

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    The Wall

    A trio of tales inspired by mementos left by visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in...

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    The Statue

    David Niven is Alex, a scholar who has won the Nobel Prize for developing a universal language. The...

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    Gost

    Nikolai Ispolatov plays the lead character in this story taken from famed Argentine writer Jorge...

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    Wittgenstein (1993)

    A humorous portrait of Austrian-born British philosopher Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein...

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    Stairs 1 Geneva

    Perspectives on visual language.

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    Quest for Fire (1982)

    Stone Age Naoh (Everett McGill) of the Ulams seeks fire and discovers (Rae Dawn Chong) Ika of the...

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    L'Auberge Espagnole (2003)

    In Barcelona, Spain, an economics student (Romain Duris) takes classes, lives with diverse roommates...

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    Riddles of the Sphinx

    A man and his daughter must solve a series of riddles to defeat a deadly creature.

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    Manganinnie

    This human-interest drama is well intentioned and has a moving finale, but the story is too thin to...

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    Hawks and Sparrows (1965)

    Two men debate Christianity and Marxism with a talking crow.

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    Movies

    Stage Fright (1981)

    An essay-film on language and theatre.

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    Movies

    The Red Book

    An image and aural collage exploring the realms of memory, language and identity.

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    Movies

    Christopher Plummer: King of Players

    A portrait of Christopher Plummer, dubbed "the greatest living actor in the English language."

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    Pygmalion (1938)

    Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) bets he can teach a cockney flower girl (Wendy Hiller) how...

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    Romance in Manhattan

    A young woman (Ginger Rogers) befriends, then falls in love with a Czech cabdriver (Francis Lederer)...

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    Counter Attack

    A Soviet paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a resistance woman (Marguerite Chapman) are trapped with seven...

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    The Earl of Chicago

    A Chicago bootlegger (Robert Montgomery) goes to England with his lawyer (Edward Arnold) to claim...

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    The Great Manhunt

    It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was...

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    Little Iodine

    Running a mere 56 minutes, Little Iodine was the first of five "streamliners" produced by Comet...

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    The Pied Piper (1942)

    Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a...

  • A Girl From Avenue
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    A Girl From Avenue "A"

    In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright...

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    The Blue Diner

    Eager to become a businesswoman, an immigrant from Puerto Rico tries to adjust to life in the United...

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    Nikamowin (Song)

    Deconstructing and reconstructing Cree narrative, Nikamowin experiments with language to create a...

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    Movies

    Le Gai Savoir

    This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film...

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    TV

    Do You Speak American? (2005)

    Robert MacNeil examines the dialects of the English language.

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    TV

    Angeles (1999)

    Spanish-language remake of the English-language series "Charlie's Angels," about three female...

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    TV

    Crossroads Café (1996)

    Teaching English the speakers of other languages.

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    TV

    The Adventure of English (2003-2004)

    An obscure tribal dialect becomes a language spoken by millions around the world.