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Nanook of the North (1922) More at IMDbPro »

• Rated #6 in 2002 by International Documentary Assn. on its list of Top 20 Documentaries of all time.
  
  
• All of the scenes are staged. The woman who plays Nanook's wife was not his actual wife.
  
  
• Allariallak/Nanook died of starvation in 1922, months after the film was completed.
  
  
• The film was sponsored by French fur company Revillon Freres which provided $50,000 for Flaherty's 16-month expedition halfway to the North Pole. Despite being rejected by five distributors, the film opened in New York City in 1922, after its success in Paris and Berlin, and grossed well over $40,000 in its first week.
  
  

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