People
Robert Flaherty
Biography:
Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the "father" of both the documentary and the ethnographic film. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Monica in the South Seas as Self (archival footage) | 2023-11-03 |
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen as Himself (archive footage) | 2010-07-07 |
The Land as Narrator (voice) | 1942-04-01 |