Nanook of the North: The Wedding of Palo and other Films of Artic Life

Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Arctic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. Nanook of the North remains as completely engaging as it was in 1922, a huge influence on many ethnographic films that followed.