True story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas and his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high seas.

Shipwrecks live again when they become to a variety of marine creatures. This programme looks at the conversion of three New Zealand shipwrecks - the Moana, near Dunedin; the Taupo, in the Bay of Plenty; and the Rainbow Warrior near the Bay of Islands.

A re-telling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill fated expedition to Antarctica's South Pole in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members.

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.

On January 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand to cross 1600 km of one of the most dangerous oceans on Earth - the Southern Ocean stretch of the Tasman Sea. After a month at sea, Andrew had successfully endured all the difficulties and a three-day Category 9 storm. On February 9, New Zealand maritime authorities received his distress call but they could not save his life. 'Kayak Man' is a stirring psychological portrait of McAuley's unshakable need to claim a first and to conquer the unknown - a need that would ultimately cost him his life.

Commemorating 250 years of shared history between Maori and Pakeha in building the youngest country in the world, Aotearoa, since the Endeavour's arrival in Turanganui-a-Kiwa in 1769. (Also known as 'Tuia 250 Highlights'.)

An introduction to the film series 'We, The Voyagers: Lata's Children' from the directors and executive producers Marianne 'Mimi' George and Heu 'Ionālani Meph Wyeth.

We, the Polynesian voyagers of Taumako, Solomon Islands, share our history, motivations, and skills, through story-telling, canoe building, and wayfinding. We recall our ancestors, who made the greatest of human migrations. We use only the designs, materials, and methods of our culture-hero, Lata, who built the first voyaging canoe (vaka) and navigated to distant islands. When Europeans took over we became isolated. To help us regain sustainability, Chief Kaveia, our most experienced navigator, led us in training new generations to plant gardens, feed workers, make rope from plants, weave and sew sails, protect our trees, adze parts for voyaging canoes, and lash them together. Kaveia also enlisted an anthropologist to help us make this film. After he died in 2009, we built a vaka and Chief Holani, Kaveia’s former crew, became our new Lata and prepared us for the test of an open ocean voyage. The story of Lata teaches us that everyone is welcome in Lata’s crew, and that we can avoid making certain mistakes as we strive to connect with long-lost family and new friends on faraway shores.

In our isolated Polynesian community, we live the story of our ancestral culture-hero, Lata. To make a voyage our living Lata welcomes men, women and children as crew, including hard workers with skills, persons of bad character, and a tame anthropologist. We bless the vessel and sailors, learn how to set the sails, and navigate into challenging seas and weather. We find our way in the open ocean by interacting with patterns of winds, waves, stars, and other signs that ancestors show us when we need them. We arrive at islands and learn what happened to family members since the last voyage some generations earlier. We reconcile, reaffirm our love for each other, and look to our future together.

On January 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand to cross 1600 km of one of the most dangerous oceans on Earth - the Southern Ocean stretch of the Tasman Sea. After a month at sea, Andrew had successfully endured all the difficulties and a three-day Category 9 storm. On February 9, New Zealand maritime authorities received his distress call but they could not save his life. 'Solo' is a stirring psychological portrait of McAuley's unshakable need to claim a first and to conquer the unknown - a need that would ultimately cost him his life.

Whetū Mārama - Bright Star tells the story of Sir Hekenukumai Busby, his significance to Te Ao Maori in rekindling their wayfinding DNA. For Māori, the canoe underpins our culture. We once built waka/canoes from giant trees and sailed the vast Pacific by the stars. These arts were lost to us for 600 years. Then the stars re-aligned and three men from far flung islands met by chance to revive our place as the greatest navigators on the planet, a Hawaiian, a Micronesian and Hek Busby, “The Chief” from Aotearoa/New Zealand.