Navajo Film Themselves

Navajos Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentary films which show scenes of life on the Navajo Nation. It was added to the United States National Film Registry in 2002.

Alta Kahn editing as her daughter Susie Benally looks on.

The films are:

• Intrepid Shadows directed by Al Clah
• The Navajo Silversmith directed by John Nelson
• A Navajo Weaver directed by Susie Benally
• Old Antelope Lake directed by Mike Anderson
• Second Weaver directed by either Susie Benally or Alta Kahn
• The Shallow Well Project directed by John Nelson
• The Spirit of the Navajos directed by Maxine and Mary J. Tsosie

The series is also known as Through Navajo Eyes, due to a confusion with the book that follows.

See Through Navajo Eyes: An exploration in film communication and anthropology. (1972) by John Adair and Sol Worth, (with an introduction by Richard Chalfen in the 1996 edition). 978-0826317711

Original elements for these films are stored at the Library of Congress, Culpeper, Virginia.