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. From Boston Brahmins to Black Louisiana teenagers, from Texas cowboys to New York professionals, American Tongues elicits funny, perceptive, sometimes shocking, and always telling comments on American English in all its diversity. (PBS)
CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students w...
We all have a dream... Nelson's dream is to learn how to read. He works at a traffic light in Maputo...
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to un...
The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic spec...
Marc Okrand discusses his involvement with the Star Trek franchise and his work on inventing the Kli...
The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spo...
Director John Scott crafts this look at the curious life of his longtime friend John Stiles — an asp...
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switze...
Three images of a person running in the void through the movement of speed and abstract images
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the ...
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible...
Fifteen images of a camera running in a park and in obscurity searching the space of light through d...
Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised g...
Twenty images of a camera running next to a chemical platform and capturing abstract light throught ...
The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there ...
This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orle...
"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and len...
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.