World’s first feature length documentary First released on 11 June 1922 in New York, Nanook of the North is considered the world’s first feature length documentary. The film preserved the disappearing ethnographic culture of the Inuit indigenous community in Canada. Robert Flaherty, an American explorer and director of the film, was considered the Father of Documentary.Although the film is widely celebrated as a pioneering documentary, most of the sequences were…

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