Maori Movies
- 1996

Broken English
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Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her...
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- 2009

Warbrick
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This short follows Joe Warbrick (Calvin Tuteao), captain of the New Zealand Natives rugby team, as he tries to rouse his battle-weary players to head...
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- 2017

Set In Stone
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The race to save the world's only dedicated Māori World War One Memorial from collapse reveals an unknown soldier's heroic story to the...
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- 2011

The Green Chain
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This homegrown Erin Brockovich story follows former Whakatāne sawmill worker Joe Harawira and his long battle to reveal the impact that...
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- 1996

Flight of the Albatross
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After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably...
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- 2009

Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore
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Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...
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- 2015

Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema
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Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of...
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- 2017

Beyond The Battalion
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Beyond The Battalion tells the story of the 28th Māori Battalion. It revisits two earlier films, including one on the 1977 pilgrimage of the...
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- 1981

Māori
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This 1981 NFU film is a tour of the contemporary world of Aotearoa’s tangata whenua. It won headlines over claims that its portrayal of...
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- 1978

New Country - New People
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A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.
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- 2024

Mauri
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Mauri (life principle, life force, vital essence inherent in all living things) The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a...
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- 2019

Take
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TAKE (te reo Maori: issue, promise, challenge) weaves mana wahine (female knowledge), dance and archival materials to retell the story of the removal...
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- 1984

Te Rerenga Wairua
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The spirit of a person killed in a motorway accident runs through forest and beaches on its journey to Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Rēinga). En route...
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- 1935

Hei Tiki
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Hei Tiki, also known as Primitive Passions and Hei Tiki: A Saga of the Maoris, is a 1935 American mock-documentary film made in New Zealand by the...
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- 2019

Ka mua ka muri
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- 2025

Taniwha
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Tama, a young Māori boy, finds himself in a magical forest filled with cheeky spirits and thundering gods. He is welcomed by a group of...
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- 1970

NZ WARS: Stories of Waitara
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Stories of Waitara combines oral histories, state of the art animations and powerful dramatic re-enactments to bring to life the narratives of Te...
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