Screenplay: Robert J. Flaherty

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert J. Flaherty. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Matahi · Anne Chevalier · Bill Bambridge · Hitu

Plot In one island of Bora Bora lagoon, a young fisherman, Matahi, is in love with Reri. But she is chosen to be the holy maid and therefore becomes "tabu". They...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Nanook of the North

1922 · Documentary · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Plot Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit), and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook...

7.6

7K votes

7.6

7K votes

Man of Aran

1934 · Documentary · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Plot Robert J. Flaherty’s award-winning Man of Aran uses stunning location photography and brilliant montage editing to build a forceful drama of life on the Aran Islands. Situated among the frequent...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Moana: A Story of the South Seas

1926 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

7.0

124 votes

7.0

124 votes

Louisiana Story

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Cast Joseph Boudreaux · Lionel Le Blanc · Frank Hardy · E. Bienvenu

Plot A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its...

6.7

314 votes

6.7

314 votes

Twenty-Four Dollar Island (S)

1927 · Documentary · 12 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

6.4

62 votes

6.4

62 votes

Industrial Britain (S)

1931 · Documentary · 21 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Cast Donald Calthrop

Plot Industrial Britain represents a watershed in the development of the British documentary movement, the moment when artistic achievement was first blended meaningfully with social intent.

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

The Land

1942 · Documentary · 43 min. · United States

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Plot Documentary showing the poor state that American agriculture had fallen into during the Great Depression.

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The Pottery Maker (S)

1925 · Documentary · 15 min. · United States

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

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