You're watching stuff anyway, right? Why not watch some stuff about languages and linguistics! Here is a list of movies that I'm recommending for (completely optional) viewing this semester. Once we have access and links set up for everything, I'll schedule some living viewing parties, in case you'd like to discuss them "in real time" while watching them together with your classmates.

Sept 22-24	Talking Black in America (see instructions for accessing our Plex videos)	[preview]
Oct 6-8	We Still Live Here / Âs Nutayuneân (see instructions for accessing our Plex videos)	[preview]
Oct 20-21	The Linguists (see instructions for accessing our Plex videos)	[preview]
Nov 3-5	Rising Voices / Hótȟaŋiŋpi	[preview]
Nov 17-19	Arrival (see instructions for accessing our Plex videos)	[preview]

Plex videos: the MIT SHASS Film Office has made us a page. To access it, you must be on the MIT network (physically on campus or VPN'ed in). Then, go to the following site: (login instructions are below)

http://miyazaki.mit.edu:32400/web/index.html

When it asks you to log in, choose the orange "Continue with email" button. Then, enter the following credentials:

Username: 24.9 (i.e., missing the 0's)
Password: introlinguistics

You might also be interested in:

Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Birth of a Language: a short video about Nicaraguan Sign Language, a language that developed among a group of deaf Nicaraguan school children
First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee
Ola Ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi The Hawaiian Language Lives
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, a dramatic depiction of a case in the early 19th century of a boy who received very little language input until he was 17
There is also a very long and very strange film called The Falls by Peter Greenaway, involving a (fictitious) event that spontaneously creates a number of new languages, and results in an urgent need for linguists. However, I'm not able to find an accessible streaming version to link to, and it's probably a bit too long for a synchronous viewing.