This biographical study of the filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife Frances reveals, through unpublished diaries, their lives and careers prior to the release

Producer of Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, and other pioneering documentaries between 1920 and 1940, Robert J. Flaherty was America's first independen

A definitive biography of Robert J. Flaherty, one of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century. From his early years as an explorer and pr

This study takes as its point of departure the changes Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North underwent from its premiere, to the sound version of 1948, the film

Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Inuit and his family, based at Hopewell Sound in North Ungava. The documentary describes the trading, hunting, fish