Nanook of the North
01 hours 18 minutes
- Alice Nevalinga, Allakariallak, Allegoo, Cunayou
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Documentary, Silent
- June 11, 1922
- N/A
- Greatest Silent Films
Tickets Sold (Domestic): m.
Domestic Gross: $ m.
Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit), and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.
