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Moana

1926

This pioneering documentary immerses itself in the daily life, customs, and rites of passage of a young man and his family on a Samoan island, capturing a way of life with lyrical beauty. An early landmark of nonfiction film by Robert Flaherty.

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Robert Flaherty’s canonical silent ethnographic feature was filmed in Samoa and constructed an influential outsider image of Samoan daily life.

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