History of Movies
My Library

Robert J. Flaherty

American documentary filmmaker (1884-1951)

1.27body-of-work score · ranked #734 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
February 16, 1884 · Iron Mountain
Died
July 23, 1951 · Dummerston
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, film editor, screenwriter, explorer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Robert J. Flaherty
Arnold Genthé · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Nanook of the North

    1922 · United States / France · documentary, drama, silent

    National Film Registry (inducted 1989) · Criterion Collection spine #33 · Roger Ebert's Great Movies

    0.634 citations
  2. 2
    Man of Aran

    1934 · United Kingdom · documentary

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1935 #9

    0.301 citation
  3. 3
    Louisiana Story

    1948 · United States · documentary, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 1994)

    0.231 citation
  4. 4
    Moana

    1926 · United States · documentary, silent, drama

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.