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Robert Flaherty
Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Additional Credits
Born February 16, 1884Died July 23, 1951 (67 years)
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 "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Robert Flaherty Filmography
| 1948 | Louisiana Story · as Screenplay |
| 1934 | |
| 1931 | Tabu: A Story of the South Seas · as Screenplay |
| 1926 | Moana · as Screenplay |
| 1922 |
| 2023 | Monica in the South Seas · as Self (archival Footage) |
| 2010 | A Boatload of Wild Irishmen · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 1943 | The Battle of Russia · as Director Of Photography |
| 1943 | The Nazis Strike · as Director Of Photography |
| 1943 | It's All True · as Story "the Story Of Bonito" And "the Bull" |
| 1942 | Why We Fight · as Director Of Photography |
| 1934 | Man of Aran · as Director Of Photography |
| 1928 | White Shadows in the South Seas · as Co-Director |
| 1926 | Moana · as Director Of Photography |
| 1922 | Nanook of the North · as Director Of Photography |