The village of Safune remembers "Moana" the documentary

'Moana' one of the earliest documentaries ever made, was filmed in Samoa in 1924. Descendants of the Samoan actors tell us their thoughts: 

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making 'Nanook of the North' and classics such as 'Man of Aran' and 'Moana', but he is also criticized for engaging in distortion and stereotyping.

In the documentary 'A Boatload of Wild Irishmen'- we go back to the village of Safune in Savai'i, Samoa and see just how the film continues to be received by the descendants of the actors there - and how it has become a filmic record of the environment of Savai'i in the early 1920s. 

Did Flaherty film Samoan life as it really was in the true sense of a 'documentary' or, like his earlier films were the scenes constructed to show the Western audience a palagi idea of action adventure in the islands? 

Watch 'Moana' the original documentary here: