Nanook Of The North DVD

Nanook of the North - A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic (1922) is regarded as the first significant non-fiction feature, often designated the pioneer of the motion pictures of cultural anthropology, shot in the days before the term documentary had even been coined. Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty had lived among the Eskimos in Canada for many years as a prospector and explorer, and he had shot some footage of them on an informal basis before he decided to make a more formal record of their daily lives. Though the film presents a happy culture bordering on primitive innocence, thanks to its objectivity and Flahertys commitment to the realistic presentment, finally the portrait of Nanook and his family is anything but condescending.