Where to watch Robert Flaherty in the UK
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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…
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- Why We Fight: Prelude to War (1942) Director of Photography
- Nanook of the North (1922) Director of Photography
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) Producer
- Elephant Boy (1937) Director
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943) Director of Photography
- Louisiana Story (1948) Director
- Moana (1926) Director
- Man of Aran (1934) Director
- White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Co-Director
- Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943) Director of Photography
- A Letter to Freddy Buache (1983) In Memory Of
- Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1927) Director
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Producer
- Monica in the South Seas (2023) as Self (archival footage)
- A Night of Storytelling (1935) Director of Photography
- The Land (1942) Writer
- A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (2010) as Self (archive footage)
- Industrial Britain (1931) Director
- The Eskimo (1916) Director
- The English Potter (1933) Director
- The Pottery Maker (1925) Director
- It's All True (1943) Original Story
- Guernica (1949) Director
- Cast of Shadows (2025) as self (archival)
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