A dramatic retelling of the story of Dr. Drauzio Varella and the inmates he treated in the notorious São Paulo prison known as Carandiru during the 1990s.

This film interweaves fiction and biography, history and memory to explore the life of Daisy Bates, who lived with Aboriginal people from the 1900s until her death in 1951. Kabbarli is a collage, pieced together from Daisy's notebooks, oral accounts, letters, archival photos and newspaper articles. It is part dramatic recreation and part stylised documentary.

Eminem, 50 Cent, Susan Sarandon and others appear in a satirical course for aspiring drug dealers on how to maximize profits and evade prison.

Deanes final warm-up gig for the troops in Waiouru is a mixed bag, and as he finally returns home, the size of the task ahead of him sinks in. Will the gig even happen?

This remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who vowed never to take up arms against another human being. They were capable of defeating the invaders, but chose not to. Drawing inspiration from Michael King's seminal book 'Moriori', The Feathers of Peace brings the truth about what happened on the Chathams to an even wider audience.

This documentary tells the incredible story of Stephen Versalko - the ASB fraudster who stole almost $18-million of his clients' money to lead an audacious double life of sex, lies and betrayal, including spending around $3.4-million on prostitutes.

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Deane and Andrei record a new song to release on the back of the big comeback concert in Rotorua. But the finances for the gig are looking so shaky that the comeback gig might never happen.

Deane faces the biggest day of the tour with 250km to travel and two gigs. But Auckland promoter Orlando is feeling the financial pinch and disaster may be just around the corner.

Deane has a capital time in Wellington - taking his fitness routine to new heights with boxing and some serious singing at the Salvation Army. But can Orlando get the finances back on track?

Deane finally meets his promoter, Orlando, and the truth is revealed. His comeback gig could be a disaster. Can Deane and his friends pull off a miracle and put on the concert of a lifetime? (FINAL)

September 11th 2001 changed the future of international air travel forever when hijackers flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington.

Deane's comeback quest begins. First stop is a warm-up gig in Cheviot - but the small turnout has Deane worried about his comeback gig promoters ability.

We meet legendary singer and Christchurch cabbie Deane Waretini and discover his dream to relaunch his career.

Half-caster Toi Iti questions the validity of Maori tikanga by delving into the world of Maori superstitions, protocols and lore.

A dramatisation of the story of 19-year-old Heather Walsh, who was held captive on a remote farm in the Mangatiti Valley for 23 weeks in 1985.

Film on the Elgin Marbles. In 1802 Lord Elgin, the then British Ambassador in Constantinople, removed the majority of the sculptures from the Parthenon temple in Athens, and shipped them from Athens to England. Since then there has been controversy about their rightful home. This film is shot on location and uses existing letters to show Elgin's thoughts at the time and tries to explain Elgin's real motives which were not that he was saving the sculptures from pollution nor the Turks, but for himself.

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A seven-part documentary series about the settling of New Zealand. The series looks at the ethnic and national backgrounds of different groups of New Zealanders, examining where they came from and why they came, and what they expected to find and how they have contributed to out history and to our contemporary life. Presented by Michael Noonan, it is a story of men and women who shared a dream that New Zealand would give them a better life, men and women with the courage to put that dream to the test.

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

A docu-drama depicting a definitive moment in NZ history: the 1932 Queen Street riots as seen through the eyes of James Edwards, the son of the leader of the Unemployed Workers Union, Jimmy Edwards.

Billy is the personal story of New Zealand s most beloved entertainer, Billy T James. Sunday Theatre goes beyond the public façade to reveal the man behind the chuckle. Twenty years have passed since Billy T James died at the age of 42, and he still manages to make us laugh. Tonight on TV ONE, the story of New Zealand's best loved entertainer is being told in the Sunday Theatre - the Audi New Zealand Season drama, Billy. Based on the biography Billy T, written by Matt Elliott, and made with the approval and support of Billy's widow, Lynn Matthews, Billy is a love story set in the changing culture of New Zealand in the seventies and eighties. It also portrays the journey of a shy, loyal and musically gifted boy who married his first love and went on to achieve extraordinary success. A Maori boy who within a few short years lost everything, including his life. Billy also takes us back to the beginning when Billy grew up in the fifties and sixties in a predominantly Pakeha world. Being Maori was considered a disadvantage to getting ahead and his adoptive parents brought him up believing that to succeed he had to forget his own culture and play the game by Pakeha rules. A multi-talented musician, Billy dreamed of being a great entertainer. Paradoxically, Billy was desperately shy off-stage but thrived in front of an audience. His timing, music and comedic charm made him hugely popular, and for Billy the greatest pleasure was to make people laugh. Although Billy had built a successful career, bad business decisions cost him his wealth and his health. Billy didn't know how to say no and the years of unhealthy living and relentless pressure finally took their toll. Working hard to pay off his debts he caught a fever that damaged his newly transplanted heart and on August 7th 1991 he passed away. Lynn Matthews, who has never sought the limelight and has been uncomfortable with other projects detailing her husband's life, believes Billy is a wonderful tribute. "Since Billy died, some people who feel like they own Billy are making money from him. Also, there are so many stories floating around about Billy, things that never happened but are being perpetuated. "So, it's comforting to know that he is still loved as much as he is and people still talk about him with such affection and fondness," she says. She says Billy is very accurate. "I wish some of the things (in the drama) were made up, but that was what life was like for us. A lot of people thought they knew what was best for Billy but they didn't. Billy knew what he wanted; he just didn't know how to tell people."

This week's Artsville is a docu-drama on New Zealand s iconic writer of detective fiction Dame Ngaio Marsh.

The story of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and the people who made it possible.

The dramatised story of New Zealand air marshal Keith Park who led the RAF into battle against Hitler's Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain 1940. The documentary fuses war archive, scripted drama and feature film footage to bring the story to life.

Vincent Ward weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman who welcomed the young filmmaker into her home in 1978. Ward made the observational film In Spring One Plants Alone about Puhi's day-to-day life in the remote Urewera Ranges. By then almost 80, she was obsessively caring for her schizophrenic adult son Niki, whose violent fits terrified her. In this new cinema feature Ward sets out to unravel the mystery that has haunted him for 30 years: Who was Puhi? And why was she so obsessed with this last remaining son? Using his relationship with Puhi as the framework to explore her life, he finds a woman of extraordinary fortitude who, at the age of 12, was chosen by the great Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana to marry his son, Whatu. Rua gave her the name, Puhi ("special one"). At 14, she had her first baby while hiding in the bush, having escaped from the 1916 police raid on Rua's community at Maungapohatu, where she witnessed the arrest of Rua and Whatu and the killing of Toko, Rua's other son, said to be her lover. She would go on to have 13 more children. But by the time Ward made his initial film, there were few signs of what had become of them. In Rain of the Children, he finds out how the loss of her children affected the course of her life. The tragedies she lived through were so powerful that some, including her, believed she was cursed. After a tumultuous second marriage and the manslaughter of her third husband, Puhi was left with her dependant son, Niki. She dedicated herself to this man-child, trying to protect him at all costs, even from beyond the grave. Rain of the Children is Ward's search for truth in the story of a woman who sought redemption through love and who has remained a touchstone for him throughout his life.

A fierce explorer and archaeologist, lyrical writer and cunning politician, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) spent much of her life traveling throughout present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan & Israel.

Marguerite Harrison (1879 - 1967) was a reporter, spy, film maker, and translator who was one of the four founding members of the Society of Woman Geographers. Harrison spied for the United States in Russia and Japan, arriving in Russia in 1920 as an Associated Press correspondent. She assessed Bolshevik economic strengths and weakness and assisted American political prisoners in Russia. She was held captive in Lubyanka, the infamous Russian prison, for ten weeks. While there she contracted tuberculosis and due to pressure from her influential contacts she was eventually set free in exchange for food and other aid to Russia.

Aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross which she was awarded as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines an organization for female pilots. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life career and disappearance continues to this day.

Inspired by true events, first-hand accounts and employing actual newsreel footage, this drama follows the aftermath of the Earthquakes that befell New Zealand’s Christchurch between 2010 and 2011, telling a universal story of family, hope and triumph against the odds.

Inspired by true events, first-hand accounts and employing actual newsreel footage, this drama follows the aftermath of the Earthquakes that befell New Zealand’s Christchurch between 2010 and 2011, telling a universal story of family, hope and triumph against the odds.

Inspired by true events, first-hand accounts and employing actual newsreel footage, this drama follows the aftermath of the Earthquakes that befell New Zealand’s Christchurch between 2010 and 2011, telling a universal story of family, hope and triumph against the odds.

In this feature-length documentary, film director Mark Summerville takes the chance to capture four of New Zealand's most celebrated contemporary choreographer/dancers: Tai Royal, Taane Mete, Douglas Wright and Michael Parmenter, as they create the only dance work that has ever brought them together. The cameras are rolling as the filmmaker gains full access to their workshop process over two years. The programme also goes on a biographical journey, exploring the rich and colourful lives of Mete and Royal. Experience their journey as boys, drag queens, men, teachers and dancers and meet the people who have influenced their lives and careers.

Deane finally meets his promoter, Orlando, and the truth is revealed. His comeback gig could be a disaster. Can they pull off a miracle and put on the concert of a lifetime?

When Captain Sullenberger takes off from New York's La Guardia Airport in 2009 and collides with a flock of birds, he makes an heroic emergency landing on the Hudson River, saving all 155 passengers.

A docudrama that tells the story of Pope Francis and his rapid rise from humble origins to becoming the head of the Argentinian Jesuit Order, and how the moral choices he faced during the dictatorship-led 'Dirty War' in the 1970s transformed him into one of the most controversial Popes in history.

The story of warrior priestess Te Rangi Topeora is a romantic and bloody one.Her uncle was Te Rauparaha and she fought alongside him. She also killed and ate her unfaithful husband's mistress.

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Finishes abruptly just before the end credits.

When a serial bomber began his spree of attacks at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the FBI, ATG, GBI and even NASA teamed up to use all their technology to bring the bomber to justice.

In 1995, bones were discovered in a burnt antique trunk in the Nevada desert. But it wasn't cutting edge forensic tools that helped convict the killer, it was a method from Sherlock Holmes' era.

When a woman's body was discovered in a barrel with an address book that had been soaked for 30 years, it was game-changing technology that finally gave the police the break they needed.

A four-part mini-series examining the events in the wake of New Zealand's worst air disaster. (1) TE 901's wreckage is found; 257 people have died. Air New Zealand fields rumours of incorrect destination co-ordinates and Justice Peter Mahon is appointed to head a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the disaster.

A four-part mini-series examining the events in the wake of New Zealand's worst air disaster. (3) Air New Zealand's stance on pilot error is strongly opposed by the company's line pilots and Mahon's investigations lead him to the United States and Britain.

A four-part mini-series examining the events in the wake of New Zealand's worst air disaster. (2) As a catalogue of errors contributing to the crash is revealed, the credibility of Air New Zealand's briefing and navigation evidence is called into question.

A four-part mini-series examining the events in the wake of New Zealand's worst air disaster. (4) The commission is over. Mahon's report clears 901's crew and finds against Air New Zealand, alleging that witnesses took part in "an orchestrated litany of lies". The airline prepares to fight back.

The extraordinary true story of Louise Nicholas' fight for justice. Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking accusations about being raped by policemen. Some believed her, many didn't. CONSENT tells the story of the senior policeman who went to great lengths to help her fight her case, the journalist who exposed the truth, and the family at the centre of the storm. From the director of OUT OF THE BLUE and the producer of THE GOLDEN HOUR comes a compelling story of secrets, betrayal, survival and love. A story of a woman who single-handedly rocked New Zealand's police and justice system to their cores.

A documentary-style dramatization in which Inuit people from Igloolik in the Central Canadian Arctic re-enact their people's way of life circa 1946.

Docu-drama about the late Dr David Kelly who was caught in the cross-fire between the Government and the BBC over the war in Iraq.

Documentary about the international team of virus hunters who first identified the deadly bird flu microbe and are now trying to get it under control. Some scenes are dramatised.

Sheds new light on a family that changed American history forever. Part one of two.