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Learn Through Videos: Literature and Linguistics

This is a collection of links to educational videos related to literature and linguistics, which are made for a general audience. The videos listed in this collection include lectures and documentary films about literature and linguistics. They introduces some of great epics, plays and poetry that have made their way around the world through time and translation; explore the lives and works of great writers including Will Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy; teach how sentences work and how to write better sentences; explore the aspects of linguistic principles and processes that underlie oral and written language proficiency; and try to unlock the hidden truth behind the ancient Greek and Norse Gods, monsters and heroes.

Language and Literacy
This course is designed to help students understand the aspects of linguistic principles and processes that underlie oral and written language proficiency, and how this knowledge is relevant K-12 instruction.

Fry's Planet Word
This is a five-part BBC documentary series presented by Stephen Fry, exploring various aspects of human language including its origins, how we use and abuse it, and the history of written language.

The Adventure of English
This is a British TV series presented by Melvyn Bragg, telling the history of the English language from 500 AD to 2000.

The Story of English
This is a nine-part PBS documentary series presented by Robert MacNeil, detailing the development of the English language.

Secrets of Body Language
This is a History Channel documentary dissecting human body language, in particular focusing on the body, the face and the voice.

Why Reading Matters
Science writer Rita Carter tells the story of how modern neuroscience has revealed that reading, something most of us take for granted, unlocks remarkable powers.

The Heroic Quest
Human societies have long used the theme of the quest for self-knowledge as a vehicle to assess their own cultures and to explore ethical situations arising in civic life.

Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes
From the ancient lost city of Hattusas in modern Turkey to the smouldering summit of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna, the documentary takes the viewer on a dazzling voyage through the Mediterranean world of the 8th century BC.

Michael Wood on Beowulf
Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages.

In Search of Myths and Heroes
Michael Wood explores four of the world's most famous myths: The Queen of Sheba, Shangri-La, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and king Arthur.

In Search of the Trojan War
Michael Wood examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes
The fictional character Sherlock Holmes is based on the true story of Dr. Joseph Bell who was a professor of medicine at Edinburgh University and pioneered forensic science.

Prophets of Science Fiction
This is a Science Channel documentary series hosted by Ridley Scott, covering the life and work of leading science fiction authors of the last couple of centuries.