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In the Land of the Head Hunters

In the Land of the Head Hunters

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 7, 1914

Runtime

1h 5m

Genres

Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

In the Land of the Head Hunters

Production Companies

Seattle Film Co.

Director

Edward S. Curtis

Description

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw natives. It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.