Nanook of the North:

Nanook of The North is an avant garde (for its time) documentary film. Although, realistically, it is difficult to define as a documentary because most of the characters are played by actors. One of the most interesting aspect of the film, above all else, is the unique camera work. Even though it used a large scale film camera, cuts are frequent implying that much work and planning went in to capturing the shots. Every minute detail is carefully contrived. The storyline of the film is fairly romanticized; bringing the inuit people to western light by telling the story of Nanook. Although this can be seen as sacrilegious to documentary filmmaking, the wide spread of Nanook of The North and the knowledge it brought the world far overpowers the minor problem of of not conforming to modern standards of documentary filmmaking. Overall, the movie did have moments that tapered onto the risque side, but never failed to tell the legitimate, harm-warming story of Nanook and his people.