Robert Flaherty
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.
Acting
Crew
Movie
Nanook of the North
Director of Photography
1922
Movie
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Producer
1931
Movie
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Director of Photography
1942
Movie
Man of Aran
Director
1934
Movie
Louisiana Story
Director
1948
Movie
Moana
Director
1926
Movie
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Director of Photography
1943
Movie
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
Director of Photography
1943
Movie
White Shadows in the South Seas
Co-Director
1928
Movie
Elephant Boy
Director
1937
Movie
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
Director
1927
Movie
A Letter to Freddy Buache
In Memory Of
1983