"Through Navajo Eyes" examines the question of documentary filmmaking as catalyst for social change. Sol Worth and John Adair's study of the Navajo made a simple but brilliant innovation. For many years, documentarians had pointed the camera at those being studied in order to create an audiovisual representation of their world. Worth and Adair instead handed over the camera to see what kind of record would result if the Navajo themselves were in control. They taught tribal members to use cameras and editing equipment, then set them out on their own --- without suggesting specific topics for filming. The results were fascinating, and remain seemingly immune to definitive interpretation to this very day. The "experiment" has been repeated many times, and in many places, which is perhaps the greatest testament to the power and originality of a simple, yet ultimately radical, shift of control from documentor to documentee.