Another great night of classic early films is presented tonight on TCM, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the 1924 silent swashbuckler, The Thief of Baghdad. And the evening starts, at 8 p.m. ET, with this influential, classic 1922 documentary – originally a silent film, but with narration recorded and added a generation later, for a new audience. It’s the images, though, that matters, as director Robert Flaherty captures the simple yet proud life of an Eskimo. I remember watching this in high school, and pitying poor Nanook because he was smart and agile enough to spear salmon swimming upstream, yet so dumb he would eat his catch raw, rather than cook it on the fire that kept him warm nearby. It was many years later before I realized Nanook was dumb like an arctic fox, and was enjoying what must have been the world’s freshest, most fabulous sashimi.