Nanook of the North (1922)
Directed by Robert Flaherty
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.
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What critics compared Nanook of the North to
Redford, working every corner of his boat, takes us back to the Inuit hunter Nanook, in Robert J. Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” (1922), methodically cutting a hole in the ice to catch a seal.
Since Nanook of the North (1927), it has proved a useful guiding principle for documentaries, particularly such city symphonies as Man with A Movie Camera and I Am Cuba.