The true story of New Zealand Troops who served in Vietnam and fell victim to Agent Orange.

Could a remote island chain in Polynesia have been the center of a thriving civilization? New archaeological and geological evidence reveal an ancient world of human sacrifice and epic voyages.

Fiona Pardington's fields of investigation have been psychoanalysis, medicine, voyeurism, memory and the body, the history of the photographic image and the nature of the relationship between the photographer and subject, particularly as it relates to sexual difference, through the ambiguities of a simultaneous solicitation and resistance. She is best known as a specialist in "pure" or analogue photographic darkroom technique, most notably hand printing and toning. Recently her photographs have returned to the formality of the photographic still life, particularly in relationship to taonga (treasured) artifacts found in museums. Mauria mai, tono ano is a series of evocative photographs on ancestral greenstone heitiki photographed from the collection of the Auckland Museum. The foetal-like heitiki carry the whakapapa (geneology) of geographical points in Te Wai Ponnamu (South Island), offering limitless ways of seeing traditional objects through contemporary eyes. A suite of her Heitiki are being gifted to the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris by the New Zealand government. Pardington has received many fellowships, residencies, awards and grants, including the Ngai Tahu residency at Otago polytechnic 2006 , Frances Hodgkins Fellow in both 1996 & 97, Visa Gold Art Award 1997 and The Moet & Chandon Fellow, France, 1991-92. An extensive exhibition history both locally and internationally includes the recent exhibition in Valencia at the Casa Museo Benlliure, ULTRAMarte, Contemporary Art From New Zealand. Selected public shows include Te Hei Tiki Auckland City Gallery 2005, Public/Private The 2nd Auckland Triennial 2004, and the Arts and Industry Urban Biennial, 2004

A prolific and successful playwright, Roger Hall has consistently written for the stage. He has also written scripts for radio and television, and for children. Hall's writing is known for its comedy, political and social purpose, and underlying pathos. His plays have toured widely and have been performed at international venues. His biggest success was with Middle Age Spread that ran for 18 months in London's West End and won the award for Comedy of the Year (1979). Hall has been the recipient of awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. He published an autobiography, Bums on Seats, in 1998. Screened on Artsville, TV One (TVNZ) 2006.

A rare insight into one of New Zealand's best-loved and most colourful literary figures - poet Hone Tuwhare. Also known as 'No Other Lips'.

A documentary about acclaimed New Zealand author Margaret Mahy, examines her life as a writer, the importance of New Zealand settings on her work; and the international success she's enjoyed.

This documentary marks the anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior and traces the events surrounding its attack.

Billy Apple: enigma, con man, or artist? Being Billy Apple looks at one of New Zealand's most controversial contemporary artists: a man who changed his name, then turned himself into a brand. Director Leanne Pooley follows Apple's life, and looks at his work in the context of the development of conceptual art overseas. This 70-minute documentary sees Apple talking with the filmmaker about whether it is important his face is even seen on screen.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the only person on the planet to have stood on the top of Everest and at the North and South Poles.This is the definitive account of one of the 20th Century's greatest explorers and adventurers with Sir Edmund Hillary talking candidly about his life and the events that made him famous.

The harrowing but eventually uplifting story of Mani who is neither man nor woman. The life of intersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell. Assigned male at birth (and named Bruce), at the age of one she was taken off to specialists who reassigned her as female. Renamed Margaret, the rural New Zealand community where she lived held a meeting to discuss the decision and to encourage everyone to keep the family's secret. At eight, without explanation, she was given the surgery that 'feminised' her. This documentary charts her discovery of the truth, choosing to own her sense of herself as neither male nor female, and follows her journey to Milwaukee to present a paper with fellow activist David Vandertie.

Ten Guitars gives warm-spirited context to the song that has been the soundtrack to countless back-lawn crate parties and freezing works chains.

This documentary looks at the grim reality of our fast-disappearing national symbol (kiwi could be extinct from the mainland in 20 years) and the inspirational efforts of people passionate about saving it.

Oft-derided across the dutch for its vowel-mangling pronunciation (sex fush'n'chups anyone?) and too fast-paced for tourists and Elton John to understand; is New Zealand's unique accent. Presented by Jim Mora; New Zild follows the evolution of New Zealand English; from the "colonial twang" to Billy T. Linguist Elizabeth Gordon explains the infamous HRT (High Rising Terminal) ending our sentences; and Mora interprets such phrases as 'air gun' (how are you going?) Features Lynn of Tawa in an accent face-off with Sam Neill and Judy Bailey.

This documentary--made in the final stages of his battle with lung cancer--looks back on the career of songwriter and entertainer Maui Dalvanius Prime. Originally from South Taranaki, he dreamed of becoming a circus ringmaster, but instead became a taonga of the Aotearoa music industry. He had numerous successes: in Sydney with The Fascinations, and his groundbreaking kapa haka disco hit 'Poi E'. In this programme, he talks about his struggle to come to terms with making Maori music and his plans on making last hikoi to the East Coast where he wrote 'Poi-E' with the late Ngoi Pewhairangi.

Documentary about the early decades of the 19th century when two distinct people were living in Aotearoa.

On February 15, 1980, Television One and South Pacific Television were dissolved and became Television One and Television Two, under the newly formed Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ). Both channels started broadcasting under the new entity the next day, 16/02/1980.

The harrowing true-life story of Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s most distinguished authors. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, international literary fame. An Angel At My Table was adapted from the autobiographies of distinguished New Zealand novelist, Janet Frame (To the Is-Land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City).

A moving and candid look at some of the first intake of Maori pre-schoolers into the Kohanga Reo movement during the 1980s.

Life Begins at 70: A documentary in which a reporter joins in the activities of several people over 70-years of age and talks to them about the various sports they play.

Children of well-known New Zealanders discuss what it's like to live in the shadow of their parents. Featuring the children of Donna Awatere-Huata, Barry Crump, Sam Hunt, and Sir Robert Muldoon.

Filmed over the 2003 Otago University year, the documentary takes a bird's eye view of student life, making this programme in the style of a wildlife documentary and viewing student life in terms of nesting, feeding, mating and display. The documentary divides its curiosity between first-year students, or "freshers", safe in their supervised accommodation, and the more mature students, who prefer the wild life, out alone, in rented houses and flats, centred round the city's infamous main street of student life, Castle Street. Life for the learner birds seems, at first, to be one long party, as they congregate at the popular student watering holes, but eventually they settle down to study and to concentrate on the challenges of surviving a long, hard winter away from home – and on passing their exams, of course. Conceived, written & produced by Colin Hogg ; directed by Rebecca Mellor.

A Political Game explores an issue whose origins are to be found in the first decades of this century. It is about the battle for the soul of New Zealand, about an affluent period in our history when internationalism was popular and idealism was affordable. In broad brush-strokes we learn the context of rugby, politics and apartheid from 1921 through to 1996 and today. What did we do, and why did we do it? What effect did we have not only on New Zealanders attitudes towards sporting and other contacts with South Africa, but on wider related issues such as New Zealand’s foreign policy? Outside South Africa itself, nowhere was the impact of that country’s racial politics greater than it was in New Zealand. What does this tell us about ourselves? Why was the New Zealand/South Africa rugby connection the subject of such an intense and protracted debate?

Fiordland National Park: The largest national park in New Zealand and one of the largest in the world, the park covers the southwest corner of the South Island. The grandeur of its scenery, with its deep fiords, its glacial lakes, its mountains and waterfalls, make it a popular tourist destination.

A documentary about the experiences of five New Zealand women who served with the New Zealand forces during World War II.

This documentary explores life in the New Zealand Army over the past 100 years, with a special emphasis on overseas action it has been involved in, starting with the Boer War.

Adventures in Maoriland - The Making of Hei Tiki. Having exploited and offended Maori when in NZ in 1928 to make his film Under the Southern Cross, Hollywood director Alexander Markey returned two years later to make Hei Tiki, spending about four years around Taupo in the process and upsetting everyone all over again. The film, based on a Maori legend, was panned upon its New York release in 1935. This documentary tells the remarkable story of the making of Hei Tiki, and includes clips from the film, footage of the cast and crew at work, and interviews with descendants of the actors.

What has been the recent Maori experience? We pick up the tale from the urbanisation of the 50s onwards, the 'Maori renaissance', the awakening of activism, treaty settlements and corporatisation. Presented, written, and produced by Damian Christie.

The Pacific Ocean supplies over 60 per cent of the world's tuna consumption, but at what cost? The most valuable stocks of Pacific tuna are already in an over-fished state, while the big eye tuna and the blue fin tuna are in danger of extinction. Enter Kiwi eco-warrior Karli Thomas and her crew, as they patrol the Pacific high seas, battling plunder and piracy to save Pacific tuna stocks from destruction. Karli Thomas And The Raiders Of The Last Tuna follows the protesters on a three month voyage to the world's most remote stretches of ocean - the Pacific high seas. It is in these international waters that thousands of legal and illegal vessels are racing to take as much as they can of the dwindling tuna population. Karli and her fellow eco-warriors put their lives on the line to search for outright piracy and unlicensed ships. Along the way, they find increasing signs of the effects of over-fishing and dodgy fishing practices such as shark finning. It's the Wild West for the world's fishing fleets, and the last frontier for tuna.

In June 1886 Mt Tarawera spectacularly erupted, and this documentary tells the story of the people who were caught in the catastrophic events. Around 120 people lost their lives, and the internationally famous Pink and White Terraces were destroyed. The documentary features an animated re-creation of the eruption, archival images, interviews with descendants of those involved, and readings from written eyewitness accounts. The author of the book Tarawera, Ron Keam, is also interviewed.

The true story of one woman's quest to befriend and protect an extroverted wild dolphin, Moko. Filmed in the six months leading up to Moko's death, Soul in the Sea follows a journey of discovery, devastating loss, and resolution. It's a love story with a difference; breaking through the invisible wall between people and animals, celebrating the incredible experience of friendship with a lone wild dolphin, and questioning whether we are truly aware of these souls in the sea. The greatest friendships can come out of the blue. With Kirsty Carrington, Errin Hallen, Grant Duffield, Peter Cavanagh, Dave Peck, Robert Purewa, Howard Hyland, Andy Bassett, Mike Jones, Jamie Quirk, Colin Holmes, TJ Haney, Karen Esterhuizen, Martin Williams, Dr Ingrid Visser, Phil Van Dusschoten Diane Turner, Pouroto Ngaropo, John Heaphy. Amy Taylor: Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit: Executive Producer, James Brown: Online Editor, Dick Reade: Sound mix and design, Matthew Caradus: Composer, Amit Tripuraneni: Colour correction, Colourlab Pictures, Anthony Terry: Graphic design and website

Early Days Yet is a documentary which explores the life of Allen Curnow, who was one of New Zealands greatest writers. Curnow not only won multiple New Zealand book awards and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, he was also the first person outside of Britain to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Exploring Allen Curnow's distinguished life and work, this documentary is a portrait of a man who worked on the cutting edge of literature for almost 70 years.

Follows one of New Zealand's most important contemporary sculptors over six months as she develops new work, using a variety of materials and techniques. A series of conversations with Christine provides the narrative for the documentary. While concentrating on current work, Christine also revisits her iconic Country Clothesline (1972). Originally produced for Artsville series.

Seraphine Pick has haunted the New Zealand art world with a constantly changing stream of emotionally charged paintings.This film follows the work and life of this prominent Wellington artist.

In the premiere episode, Dougal Stevenson looks at the 1960s - a decade of tragic disasters, social change as air travel opportunities opened up, sporting gold and Beatlemania! 1960s - The Decade in News: It was a decade of disasters – the Strongman Mine explosion killed 19, 23 died in our worst domestic civil aviation accident in 1963; 29 died when the MV Kaitawa was lost at sea, an earthquake devastated Inangahua, and of course there was the Wahine sinking. In the crime world, George Wilder became an unlikely folk hero with three prison breaks, while we were shocked by the Basset Road machine gun murders. But there were highlights too… the Lawson quins born in ’65, Brian Barratt Boyes performs our first open heart surgery, the six o’clock swill ends and we change to decimal currency.

The Vietnam War, French nuclear testing and the Dawn Raids, Land Marches and oil shocks, the 70s were a tumultuous time. The Crewe murders, Mr Asia and the ongoing mystery of Mona Blades disappearance would mark the decade in crime, while the death of Big Norm would see the election of the most divisive Prime Minister in our history, Robert Muldoon. Britain joins the EEC meaning our role as her larder was in danger, the Cold War saw Bill Sutch charged with spying for the Russians, while Colin Moyle resigned as an MP over homosexual rumours.

Biographer Michael King takes us through the life of pioneering writer Frank Sargeson: from puritanical parents to self-discovery in London, through to decades encouraging an emerging tide of New Zealand writers. The documentary's most priceless moments are the tales told when four of those writers return to Sargeson's fabled fibrolite bach, in Takapuna. Kevin Ireland calls it an "oasis, this marvellous place where books ruled supreme". Sargeson's purposefully minimalistic writing style, the documentary argues, helped NZ literature find its own voice.

This documentary allowed sufferers and their families to tell their personal stories in the daily battle against anorexia nervoa and bulimia nervosa; the signs, the struggles, the guilt, and the long road to recovery. This documentary shows anorexia is not a state of mind that can be turned off and on at will. This illness can, and does, happen to anyone. No galmourising of thinness, no using of skeletal forms; just ordinary New Zealand families caught in the grip of this tenacious, complex and often fatal illness. Dying to Eat explores the complexity of the illness, the importance of early treatment and reinforces the need for community support, understanding, and openness.

1960s - Social Trends: New Zealand started off the 60s as a quiet farming nation with our own holy trinity of rugby, racing and beer . But overseas travel became more possible by air, and we became increasingly influenced by overseas – our first American style shopping mall opened in 1963, wine began being served in restaurants legally (The Gourmet on Shortland St). Maori were increasingly moving to the city from the country, as were a lot of other people, and when the wool prices collapsed in 1967, unemployment grew, pushing more people the city… dissatisfaction with the golden era would grow, we’d see the protest movement start to grow, and James K Baxter forming Jerusalem.

More like the good old days, when poets went on school tours. Does that happen anymore, or is everyone too busy doing tests? Here's a gem from 1979 that follows Sam Hunt, Alistair Campbell, Hone Tuwhare and Jan Kemp on a six -week tour around the country performing in halls and schools.

60s - Big Event – The Wahine: There was no single event that would remain imprinted on our collective consciousness from this decade like the sinking of the Wahine. The loss of life from a single event (53) was unparalleled in New Zealand during the 60s, and the image of the listing ferry off the coast of Wellington is a powerful symbol.

1960s - Sports & Leisure: Peter Snell got the decade off to a good start with a gold at Rome, and topped it off with a double in Tokyo in 1964, while Bob Charles and Denny Hulme both got world attention in their respective pursuits. Our outdoorsy, rural heritage was still front of mind though, and the sixties saw New Zealand establish the Golden Shears competition in 1961, Outward Bound was set up in 1962. We even had our own crack at a vehicle for the great outdoors, the kiwi made Trekka rolled off the production line in 1966.