Silent · 1922 · 1 h 19 min

Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty’s 1922 portrait of an Inuit family on the Hudson Bay ice. It staged some scenes, and it still changed what a documentary could be. Watch it as a historical picture, not as a neutral record.

Source

Robert J. Flaherty, 1922

Licence

Public domain

Why it is here

Published in 1922. The picture is in the public domain. The Archive copy is used for playback.