One of the canonical greats of the silent era by the duo Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, is a documentary about the heroic annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribes of Iran. The filmmakers join them just in time for their spring migration through inhumanly arduous routes. The restless filmmakers identify with the people they follow, transforming their journey into some of the grandest vistas of silent cinema ever captured on film. Restored in 4K in 2024 by Milestone Films with MoMA and the Library of Congress.
