Ebook: Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922

The early careers of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances, deepen our understanding of the classic film Nanook of the North.

Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend.