American Tongues (1988)

Directed by

Andrew Kolker, Louis Alvarez

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

57 min

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines different American English dialects and accents. It explores how people speak across the United States and the attitudes others have toward those ways of speaking.

educationalobservationalthoughtfulconversationalmatter-of-factinformativeengaging

What happens

American Tongues is a 1988 sociolinguistic documentary examining American English dialects and accents and perceptions thereof. It was produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. The Center for New American Media won a Peabody Award for the film in 1987. It aired on the first season of the PBS series POV in 1988. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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