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.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
(Producer)
Nanook of the North
(Director)
Nanook of the North
(Producer)
Nanook of the North
(Director of Photography)
Nanook of the North
(Editor)
Elephant Boy
(Director)
Man of Aran
(Director)
Louisiana Story
(Director)
Moana
(Director)
Industrial Britain
(Director)
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
(Director)
Nanook of the North
(Writer)
A Night of Storytelling
(Director of Photography)
The Land
(Writer)
The Land
(Director of Photography)
Louisiana Story
(Screenplay)
The Land
(Director)
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
(Producer)
Industrial Britain
(Producer)
The Eskimo
(Director)
White Shadows in the South Seas
(Co-Director)
The English Potter
(Director)
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
(Director of Photography)
A Night of Storytelling
(Director)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
(Director)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
(Producer)
Man of Aran
(Writer)
Man of Aran
(Director of Photography)
Moana
(Screenplay)
Moana
(Producer)
Moana
(Editor)
Moana
(Director of Photography)
The Pottery Maker
(Director)
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
(Editor)
Louisiana Story
(Producer)
Guernica
(Director)
Twenty-Four Dollar Island
(Director of Photography)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
(Director of Photography)
Industrial Britain
(Director of Photography)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
(Screenplay)