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Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty, 1922

Nanook, an Eskimo (what is now known as an Inuit), his family, and his followers of "Itivimuits" are among the approximately three hundred nomadic people who live in an area roughly the size of England on the eastern shores of Hudson's Bay in a region called Ungava of Canada's north. Their travel is largely through kayak and other water vessels in the summer and dog sled during the winter. They have some contact with white people of "western" civilization, with whom they barter for goods at set trading posts.

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Of Seals and Men

Mai Zetterling, 1979

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Sælfangst på Isen i Mørketiden

Jette Bang, 1938

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Inughuit - folket vid Jordens navel

Staffan Julén, Ylva Julén, 1985

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Udflytterne

Jørgen Roos, 1972

On the east coast of Greenland, five families have settled at an abandoned weather station. For 11 monts of the year they are completely isolated from the rest of the world. They have refused to continue living on public assiatance in the slum settlements of East Greenland.

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Fuglefængere på Færøerne

Erik R. Knudsen, 1950

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Thule II

Jette Bang, 1939

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Grønlandsfilm

1940

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En fangerfamilie i Thuledistriktet

Jørgen Roos, 1967

After giving birth to a daughter at the hospital at K'anak, Anna returns home in a helicopter to her husband Ajaco, who is a sealer at a trading station. In 35 degrees of frost he drives his dogsled out onto the sea ice, where he shoots a seal, skins it on the spot, and returns home to a meal of freshly boiled seal meat. He trades the sealskin for merchandise from the trading post.

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Nabo til Nordpolen

Teit Jørgensen, Per Ingolf Mannstaedt, Mike Siegstad, 1985

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Ultima Thule

Jørgen Roos, 1968

At Thule - in the extreme north of Greenland - there still live approximately 600 polar Eskimos. When the American air base was built here, they were moved from their original settlement to the newly built Danish government town of K'anak. Although they eame a livelihood by hunting and fishing, they are a minority obviously threatened with extinction.

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En boplads i Østgrønland

Jette Bang, Kaj Mogens Jensen, 1969