Part of my work involves timeline-based visualizations of text utterances. Movie subtitle files are a convenient sample: they provide the dialogues along with the timestamps. I've explored a few ways to visualize these dialogues based on data from subtitle files. Note that this only works with SRT files for the time being.
Try it out
You can try out the visualizations here.
Dependencies
For the javascript bits to work, I use jQuery, D3, and the Fisheye D3 Plugin.