The first time John Grierson used the term “documentary” was in reference to Moana, thus defining a new type of filmmaking made famous four years earlier with Nanook of the North. Now Robert Flaherty traveled to the other side of the world to look at the Samoan cultural tradition within his poetically filmed images of everyday activities of fishing, hunting, feasting, dancing, and tattooing, reaching deep to get at the emotional heart of his subject. Flaherty’s methods resulted in a special type of hybrid filmmaking that, happily, may be debated as long as cinema endures.