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
Direction Robert J. Flaherty
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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