Most everyone who has sat through a high school English or social studies class has seen this film, the most-widely recognized silent documentary.

Director/cameraman Robert J. Flaherty endured years of hardship in frozen Canada to produce this initimate portrait of an Eskimo fisherman and his family, Nanook of the North (1922). — Carl Bennett

1999 Criterion Collection edition

Nanook of the North (1922), black & white, 79 minutes, not rated.

Criterion Collection, CC1549D, UPC 7-15515-00982-9.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 26 January 1999.
Country of origin: USA

The film is accompanied by a new music score composed and directed by Timothy Brock. It has been transferred from high-quality 35mm print materials. Supplemental features include an exerpt from a documentary on Robert J. Flaherty, and still photos.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

This French boxset of Nanook of the North also includes three other Flaherty documentaries.

This budget-edition disc may be mastered from 16mm reduction print materials. A logomark may appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture throughout. Better to consider the Criterion edition noted above.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.