Moana (1926)

Year: 1926
Genres: Documentary
Countries: United States of America
Languages: No Language
Runtime: 98 min

Name: Moana
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1926
Rating: 3.3

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”