Nanook of The North.

My favourite scene, the fishing sequence. Flaherty uses the bright snow as a natural light diffuser. Contrasts superbly with the reflections of Nanook on the water. You can view the eight part playlist here.

Here's the wikipedia blurb about Nanook of The North. It was written partially by me, taken from the research page of the director, Robert J. Flaherty. What we can take from this film is a mean to justify an end. I didn't matter to Flaherty that the Inuit were using rifles for hunting in 1921, and that almost every scene was staged. Flaherty wanted to bring the unknown traditions of a forgotten culture to the Western world. He succeeded.
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From wikipedia.org:

In 1913, on his expedition to prospect the Belcher Islands, his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture camera along. Flaherty brought with him a Bell and Howell hand cranked motion picture camera. He was particularly intrigued by the life of the Inuitnitrate film stock was ignited in a fire started from his cigarette, in his editing room. His film was destroyed and he received burns on his hands. Although his editing print was saved and shown several times, Flaherty wasn't satisfied with the results. "It was utterly inept, simply a scene of this or that, no relation, no thread of story or continuity whatever, and it must have bored the audience to distraction. Certainly it bored me."^[2] people, and spent so much time filming them that he had begun to neglect his real work. When Flaherty returned to Toronto with 70,000 feet of film, the

Flaherty was determined to make a new film, one following a life of a typical Eskimo and his family. In 1920, Flaherty secured funds from Revillon Frères, a French fur trade company to shoot what was to become Nanook of the North^[3].On the 15th of August, 1920 Flaherty arrived in Port Harrison, Quebec to shoot his film. With him he took two Akeley motion-picture cameras which the Inuit referred to as "the aggie".^[4]Flaherty also brought full developing, printing and projection equipment to show the Inuit his film, while he was still in the process of filming. Flaherty lived in an attached cabin to the Revillon Frères trading post.

Melanie McGrath, a writer, writes that Flaherty, while living in Northern Quebec for the year of filming Nanook, had an affair with his lead actress, the young Inuit woman who played Nanook's wife. A few months after he left, she gave birth to his son, Josephie, whom he never acknowledged. Josephie was one of the Inuit who were relocated in the 1950s to very difficult living conditions in Resolute and Grise Fiord, in the extreme North (see High Arctic relocation). Flaherty knew of his son's difficulties, but took no action.^[5] Corroboration of these details of her writing is not readily available and Flaherty himself never discussed the matter.

For the new film, in an attempt to portray Inuit life in its purity, Flaherty staged some scenes, including the ending, where Allakariallak (who acts the part of Nanook) and his screen family are supposedly at risk of dying if they could not find or build shelter quickly enough. The half-igloo had been built beforehand, with a side cut away for light so that Flaherty's camera could get a good shot. Flaherty also insisted that the Inuit not use rifles to hunt, though they had become common, and pretended at one point that he could not hear the hunters' pleas for help, instead continuing filming their struggle and putting them in greater danger.