Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, We’re in the Money
Ginger Rogers sings the title song in fluent Pig Latin
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, We’re in the Money
- Minionese, Despicable Me
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Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, Gold Diggers of 1933 (We’re in the Money)
- Minionese, Despicable Me
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, Gold Diggers of 1933 (We’re in the Money)
- Minionese, Despicable Me
- Sindarin, Quenya, Khuzdul and the Black Speech of Mordor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, Gold Diggers of 1933 (We’re in the Money)
- Minionese, Despicable Me
- Sindarin, Quenya, Khuzdul and the Black Speech of Mordor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Gibberish posing as a language from the South Seas, Princess Caraboo
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, Gold Diggers of 1933 (We’re in the Money)
- Minionese, Despicable Me
- Sindarin, Quenya, Khuzdul and the Black Speech of Mordor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Gibberish posing as a language from the South Seas, Princess Caraboo
- Alien language, Disclosure Day
Movies where a made-up language is spoken (one film per franchise, please)
- Klingon, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Nell’s Idioglossia, Nell
- Atlantean, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Huttese, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Pig Latin, Gold Diggers of 1933 (We’re in the Money)
- Minionese, Despicable Me
- Sindarin, Quenya, Khuzdul and the Black Speech of Mordor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Gibberish posing as a language from the South Seas, Princess Caraboo
- Alien language, Disclosure Day
- Na’vi language, Avatar
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore produced documentary about the global warming crisis
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore produced documentary about the global warming crisis
- The Twister: Caught In The Storm - A devastating and gut-punching documentary about various people impacted by the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri.+
+Has the matter of streaming-only films come up in this thread?
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore produced documentary about the global warming crisis
- The Twister: Caught In The Storm - A devastating and gut-punching documentary about various people impacted by the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri.
- Future Shock - a 1873 documentary, based on the 1970 novel of the same name, that describes changes in the cultural mindset such as indecision from overwhelming options, instant gratification, disposable products and impermanence.
You mean whether they’re applicable in this thread? I’m not certain. Streamers like Netflix produce cinematic features, but would a streamer like ESPN or Discovery be considered equal to WTBS?
Wow! That was very prescient of the filmmakers.
Impactful Documentaries
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore produced documentary about the global warming crisis
- The Twister: Caught In The Storm - A devastating and gut-punching documentary about various people impacted by the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri.
- Future Shock - a 1873 documentary, based on the 1970 novel of the same name, that describes changes in the cultural mindset such as indecision from overwhelming options, instant gratification, disposable products and impermanence.
- Seven Up! - a 1964 British documentary, profiling the lives of fourteen seven-year-olds, from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. It became the first in a highly-praised series, in which the same children (later adults) were revisited every seven years; the final installment, 70 Up, will be released next week.
- Blackfish - about the horrible and inhumane treatment of captive orcas.
- Harlan County, USA - about a coal miners’ strike in Harlan County, Kentucky
- American Movie - Great snapshot of indie filmmaking in the 90s and the struggles of independent filmmaking with some interesting real characters.
- Supersize Me - about fast food, factory farming, additives, etc.
- Grey Gardens - about a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who live in squalid conditions. (This movie served as inspiration for episode 1 of IFC’s satirical series, Documentary Now! titled “Sandy Passage.”)
- An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore produced documentary about the global warming crisis
- The Twister: Caught In The Storm - A devastating and gut-punching documentary about various people impacted by the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri.
- Future Shock - a 1873 documentary, based on the 1970 novel of the same name, that describes changes in the cultural mindset such as indecision from overwhelming options, instant gratification, disposable products and impermanence.
- Seven Up! - a 1964 British documentary, profiling the lives of fourteen seven-year-olds, from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. It became the first in a highly-praised series, in which the same children (later adults) were revisited every seven years; the final installment, 70 Up, will be released next week.
- Roger and Me - Every other thing Michael Moore did exists because this film made money.
NEXT: Films of any genre you went into knowing nothing about, but they made an impact on you.
- Return of the Secaucus 7 – Started following John Sayles career-- also learned how reified the Boomers were (I was only about 16 when I saw it in maybe 1983).