Nanook of the North

Director: Robert Flaherty
Starring: Allakariallak (as Nanook)
Year: 1922

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.

Comments: Conveys as sense of wonder with the Arctic north. After 87 years, this holds up surprisingly well from a cinematography and story-telling standpoint

Recommended.