Related to
A Film about Linguistics, this morning I was idly searching for a great documentary about linguistics that I saw on (U.S. public television station) PBS in the mid-1990s.
I found a posting on Linguist List from several years ago with a list of linguistics-related movies:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1708.html The documentary that I was looking for turned out to be
The Human Language Series. It's available for purchase, but for $545 for 3 movies and $195 for each movie. Guess I'll be taking it out of my library rather than buying it...