Nanook and his family typify Eskimo life in the Arctic. Their continuous search for food necessitates their nomadic life. In the summer they journey to the river to fish for salmon and hunt walrus. In...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 26, 1999
Stats: 219 reviews
Cool insight, interesting camera shots. Not a truly riveting story, but it's definitely memorable. It's got that silent-movie kind of dreariness of course. And all the animal killing made my sheltered mind flinch nervously.
A salvage ethnography about the Inuit's struggle for survival in Arctic. The truth was that the main character is not named Nanook, the women and children with him are not his own, and that most of the scenes were staged to show the Inuits' way of life before European influence....( read more)
Yes, it was highly staged. But for the time period, this was perhaps the closest one could get to Cinema Verite. The clunky camera necessitated the staged aspects of the film, and the filmaker emphasizing spears over the guns that had become prevalent in Inuit culture at the time...( read more)
Flaherty's first, and likely his best. Though somewhat contrived, this documentary really demonstrates how some people continually struggle against overwhelming odds for survival, and yet are incredibly resilient because of it. The seal fishing scene really surprised me. All in a...( read more)
Usually considered to be the first documentary, and it?s awesome. A look at the Inuit people of northern Canada, the film focuses on a hunter named Nanook. There are said to be some inaccuracies (Nanook?s real name is Allakariallak) and a few of the events here were sort of sta...( read more)
pontos por ter sido o primeiro documentário a ser filmado. com teor antropológico, mas teatral em certas capturas da realidade (isso se releva já que é o começo da experiência, né).
Undeniable is its importance to film industry history, even if being considered a faux documentary. Flaherty wanted a portrayal of the true Inuit ancestors in the cold arctic, so he fooled the audiences to accomplish that, by adding a bit of staging. The result is in sight. An un...( read more)
They made us sit through this in 8th grade. It's a wonder I watch documentaries at all after this.
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