Nanook of the North

Vintage illustrated poster for Nanook of the North, featuring portrait-style drawings of Inuit family members, including a man, woman, and child, all dressed in traditional Arctic fur clothing. A sled dog growls on the lower right. The poster promotes the film as “A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic,” with enthusiastic taglines about its human drama and action.

Director: Robert Flaherty

Lead Actors: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou

Release Year: 1922

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013427/

Podcast Episode: Episode 069: The Doc with Staged Wilderness and Cultural Missteps—Nanook of the North (1922) with Phil Duncan

Psychology Concepts: discrimination, ethnography, gender, prejudice, Research Methods, Social Psychology, stereotypes