Nanook of the North [videorecording] / a film by Robert J. Flaherty. - Claremont, Calif. : Criterion, c1998. - 1 videodisc(DVD) (79min) : si, b&w booklet - The Criterion collection ; 33 . - The Criterion collection ; 33 .

Film released in 1922. Booklet contains historical information about the film's making and a list of the film's chapters. Special features include: New digital transfer by David Shepard; new orchestral score by silent film music specialist Timothy Brock; excerpts from the television documentary 'Flaherty and Film', featuring interviews with the filmaker's widow and Nanook co-editor Frances Flaherty; stills gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.

Story of Inuit hunter Nanook as he struggles to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region.

Certification not available.


DVD.


Silent with English intertitles.

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