Robert Flaherty
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1884
- Place of birth
- Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
- Died
- July 23, 1951
Biography
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 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. Flaherty was married to writer Frances Hubbard from 1914 until his death in 1951. Hubbard worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story (1948).
Movies with Robert Flaherty
- The Land 1942 · ★ 7.3
- Monica in the South Seas 2023
- A Boatload of Wild Irishmen 2010
- Cast of Shadows 2025
Movies directed by Robert Flaherty
- Nanook of the North 1922 · ★ 7.1
- Man of Aran 1934 · ★ 7.3
- Louisiana Story 1948 · ★ 6.3
- Moana 1926 · ★ 6.7
- Elephant Boy 1937 · ★ 6.6
- Twenty-Four Dollar Island 1927 · ★ 6.3
- Industrial Britain 1931 · ★ 5.6
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo 1950 · ★ 6.2
- The Pottery Maker 1925 · ★ 6.5
- The Land 1942 · ★ 7.3
- The English Potter 1933 · ★ 7.5
- A Night of Storytelling 1935 · ★ 6.0
- The Eskimo 1916
- Guernica 1949