diff --git a/cms/envs/common.py b/cms/envs/common.py
index 459c24de32..e69609022f 100644
--- a/cms/envs/common.py
+++ b/cms/envs/common.py
@@ -1536,6 +1536,7 @@ YOUTUBE = {
     'TRANSCRIPTS': {
         'CAPTION_TRACKS_REGEX': r"captionTracks\"\:\[(?P<caption_tracks>[^\]]+)",
         'YOUTUBE_URL_BASE': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',
+        'ALLOWED_LANGUAGE_CODES': ["en", "en-US", "en-GB"],
     },
 
     'IMAGE_API': 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/{youtube_id}/0.jpg',  # /maxresdefault.jpg for 1920*1080
diff --git a/lms/envs/common.py b/lms/envs/common.py
index 16382b6175..b17815301f 100644
--- a/lms/envs/common.py
+++ b/lms/envs/common.py
@@ -2949,6 +2949,7 @@ YOUTUBE = {
     'TRANSCRIPTS': {
         'CAPTION_TRACKS_REGEX': r"captionTracks\"\:\[(?P<caption_tracks>[^\]]+)",
         'YOUTUBE_URL_BASE': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=',
+        'ALLOWED_LANGUAGE_CODES': ["en", "en-US", "en-GB"],
     },
 
     'IMAGE_API': 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/{youtube_id}/0.jpg',  # /maxresdefault.jpg for 1920*1080
diff --git a/xmodule/tests/test_transcripts_utils.py b/xmodule/tests/test_transcripts_utils.py
index 0675dff2cf..4f33169b51 100644
--- a/xmodule/tests/test_transcripts_utils.py
+++ b/xmodule/tests/test_transcripts_utils.py
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ These tests follow the following nomenclature:
  - among the fields found in a track descriptor is a caption URL (aka caption link)
         - use this link to obtain the track's caption data
 '''
-from ..video_block.transcripts_utils import get_transcript_link_from_youtube
-
 from unittest import mock, TestCase
 
+import ddt
+
+from ..video_block.transcripts_utils import get_transcript_link_from_youtube
 
 YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID = "z-LoKnweV6w"
 
@@ -102,43 +103,34 @@ class YoutubeVideoHTMLResponse:
             self.content = bytearray(youtube_html, 'UTF-8')
 
 
+@ddt.ddt
 class TranscriptsUtilsTest(TestCase):
     """
     Tests utility fucntions for transcripts (in video_block)
     """
 
     @mock.patch('requests.get')
-    def test_get_transcript_link_from_youtube(self, mock_get):
+    @ddt.data("en", "en-US", "en-GB")
+    def test_get_transcript_link_from_youtube(self, language_code, mock_get):
         """
         Happy path test: english caption link returned when video page HTML has one english caption
         """
-        language_code = 'en'
         mock_get.return_value = YoutubeVideoHTMLResponse.with_caption_track(language_code)
 
         language_specific_caption_link = get_transcript_link_from_youtube(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID)
         self.assertEqual(language_specific_caption_link, CAPTION_URL_UTF8_DECODED_TEMPLATE.format(language_code))
 
     @ mock.patch('requests.get')
-    def test_get_caption_no_english_caption(self, mock_get):
+    @ddt.data("fr", None)
+    def test_get_caption_no_english_caption(self, language_code, mock_get):
         """
         No caption link returned when video page HTML contains no caption in English
         """
-        language_code = 'fr'
         mock_get.return_value = YoutubeVideoHTMLResponse.with_caption_track(language_code)
 
         english_language_caption_link = get_transcript_link_from_youtube(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID)
         self.assertIsNone(english_language_caption_link)
 
-    @ mock.patch('requests.get')
-    def test_get_caption_no_captions_in_HTML(self, mock_get):
-        """
-        No caption link returned when video page HTML contains no captions at all
-        """
-        mock_get.return_value = YoutubeVideoHTMLResponse.with_no_caption_tracks()
-
-        english_language_caption_link = get_transcript_link_from_youtube(YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID)
-        self.assertEqual(english_language_caption_link, None)
-
     @ mock.patch('requests.get')
     def test_get_caption_malformed_caption_locator(self, mock_get):
         """
diff --git a/xmodule/video_block/transcripts_utils.py b/xmodule/video_block/transcripts_utils.py
index 39f18ca741..b3fcb52202 100644
--- a/xmodule/video_block/transcripts_utils.py
+++ b/xmodule/video_block/transcripts_utils.py
@@ -182,12 +182,13 @@ def get_transcript_link_from_youtube(youtube_id):
     try:
         youtube_html = requests.get(f"{youtube_url_base}{youtube_id}")
         caption_re = settings.YOUTUBE['TRANSCRIPTS']['CAPTION_TRACKS_REGEX']
+        allowed_language_codes = settings.YOUTUBE['TRANSCRIPTS']['ALLOWED_LANGUAGE_CODES']
         caption_matched = re.search(caption_re, youtube_html.content.decode("utf-8"))
         if caption_matched:
             caption_tracks = json.loads(f'[{caption_matched.group("caption_tracks")}]')
             for caption in caption_tracks:
-                if "languageCode" in caption.keys() and caption["languageCode"] == "en":
-                    return caption["baseUrl"]
+                if "languageCode" in caption.keys() and caption["languageCode"] in allowed_language_codes:
+                    return caption.get("baseUrl")
         return None
     except ConnectionError:
         return None