The debate has always been whether or not Robert J. Flaherty’s far-flung films are fiction: In his 1926 Samoan island-life epic Moana, just as in Nanook of the North, Flaherty pressed the native ...

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Frances Hubbard Flaherty was a German-born American writer and director, known for Moana (1926), Louisiana Story (1948), and The Land (1942). She was married to filmmaker Robert J. 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 ...