The Canadian Experience — Season 1, Episode 4: The Year of the Hunter: The story of Nanook
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Robert Flaherty was the very first to bring us a film based on the idea that reality could be as gripping as fiction. After years as an explorer in Canada’s North, and funded by a fur trading company, he undertook the mission of chronicling the life of an Inuit hunter near Port Harrison, on the eastern shore of Hudson’s Bay. The story of how he did it, and his adventures in one of the most inhospitable landscapes on earth, is one of courage, adversity, but most of all, one of friendship.
About The Canadian Experience
A six-part series of absorbing documentaries that define who we are as a people and a country. Tales from our distant past reveal the heroic struggles of our ancestors, while stories from our history illuminate the triumphs and trials of the diverse people who call Canada home.