• Director: Robert J. Flaherty
  • Release Year: 1922
  • Production Country: United States, France
  • Language: Silent

Nanook of the North

Description

One of the first ethnographic films made, this early documentary follows the life of an Inuit family in the Hudson's Bay area.

Themes

Inuit, Anthropology, Ethnography, Colonialism, Film history, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Aborigines, Tradition and culture, Cross-cultural interpretations, Cultural appropriation