Robert Flaherty
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA
- Died
- July 23, 1951
- Movies
- 19
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Cast of Shadows | self (archival) |
| 2023 | Monica in the South Seas | Self (archival footage) |
| 2010 | A Boatload of Wild Irishmen | Self (archive footage) |
| 1942 | The Land | Narrator (voice) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1950 | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | Director, Producer |
| 1949 | Guernica | Director |
| 1948 | Louisiana Story | Director, Producer |
| 1942 | The Land | Writer, Director |
| 1937 | Elephant Boy | Director |
| 1935 | A Night of Storytelling | Director |
| 1934 | Man of Aran | Director, Writer |
| 1933 | The English Potter | Director |
| 1931 | Industrial Britain | Director, Producer |
| 1931 | Tabu: A Story of the South Seas | Producer, Screenplay |
| 1927 | Twenty-Four Dollar Island | Director, Producer |
| 1926 | Moana | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1925 | The Pottery Maker | Director |
| 1922 | Nanook of the North | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1916 | The Eskimo | Director |
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