Name: Moana
Director: Robert Flaherty
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1926-01-07
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, Tama, T'ugaita, Pe'a

Moana

★ 6.6 1926 1h 38min Documentary

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.”