Moana (1926)

Title: Moana

Original Title: Moana

Release Date: 1926-01-07

Status: Released

Rating: 6.6/10 (from 34 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Robert Flaherty Productions Inc.

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.”