Robert Flaherty

Director, known for Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Nanook of the North, Moana

Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who made the first commercially successful feature-length documentary, Nanook of the North (1922), which solidified his reputation and was never able to be equaled in its success, although he continued development of this new genre…