Waka Huia follows reporter Mana Epiha's personal journey to one of the most remote islands on the planet, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). In this documentary, Mana reveals a rare inside look at the tribulations of modern Rapa Nui who share a similar history, culture and language with New Zealand Māori. Mana is taken into heart and home and discovers life on the island through a fisherman and his family, a musical activist, and a local guide. He is captivated by the presence of the ancient volcanoes and the spell-binding aura of the iconic giant Mo'ai statues scattered on this eerie landscape. It is through this passage of discovery that Mana begins to realise his own individual lineage unravelling before him.

In 1986, off Fremantle, Australia KZ7 was the most dominant boat in the Louis Vuitton Cup round robin competition, winning 33 of 34 starts. In the Semi finals KZ7 swept French Kiss 4 races to nil, and reached the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals, where the New Zealand Challenge lost to Dennis Conner's and Stars & Stripes 87. This 30-minute documentary traces KZ7's journey and celebrates how close the New Zealand syndicate came to challenging for the America's Cup.

Labour Party leader Norman Kirk swept to power in 1972, determined to remain as New Zealand Prime Minister for nine years. Within eighteen months he was dead. Who or what killed Norman Kirk?

Cathy Downes narrates a documentary about Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk - arguably New Zealand's greatest eccentric. Filmed during his first trip home in fifty-six years, this documentary looks at the poet, pamphleteer, private printer, pagan and pretender to the throne of Poland.

A documentary examining the venture into the field of agroforestry by the Society for the Intellectually Handicapped (IHC) which, while helping Taranaki farmers adapt to the changing market, provides employment for intellectually handicapped people. A Capricorn Films production for the Society for the Intellectually Handicapped (IHC).

Produced for the New Zealand Society for the Intellectually Handicapped (IHC), with the support of the International Year of Disabled Persons Telethon Trust, More Like Us is a short documentary about the integration of intellectually handicapped children into state schools. A "Children Helping Children" film produced by Capricorn Films.

After the Jeremy Paxman hosted BBC documentary "AIDS -The New Lepers", there is a locally hosted panel discussion and a phone in on AIDS in New Zealand, the research taking place and what help is available. AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome

A tribute to the Australian film industry, featuring contributions from such people as Dustin Hoffman, Pamela Stephenson, Richard Chamberlain, Liv Ullmann and Olivia Newton-John. The documentary is illustrated with footage from some of the best Australian films, among them "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Man From Snowy River", "Breaker Morant", "The Last Wave" and "Tim".

A guide to the reasons for the New Zealand census, how the statistics are used and what they are used for.The population survey will be filled in by everyone (including street kids, possum trappers and jailed French secret service agents), generate 5,500 pages of information and influence national planning. Reporter Philip Alpers is the guide and strives to find flaws in the exercise's much vaunted confidentiality as he interviews politicians and statisticians and visits his mother. Leading naysayer The Wizard of Christchurch is a typically colourful dissenting voice.

The Rainbow Warrior, a converted North Sea fishing trawler and flagship of the Greenpeace organisation, arrived in Auckland on 7 July, 1985 to prepare for a voyage of protest to the French nuclear test site at Moruroa Atoll. Three days later she lay on the bottom of Auckland Harbour, crippled by two explosions that ripped through her hull, and one of her crew was dead. This documentary traces the events of this major international incident and highlights new and as yet un-revealed facts, with footage taken inside the court at the first trial of the two French agents arrested for their part in the bombing. The programme also backgrounds the French interest in the Pacific and looks at the many conflicting reasons given as to why France saw it as being in her best interest to sink the ship.

A documentary history of the ancient arts and sacred treasures which make up the Te Maori exhibition currently touring the United States. This is the story of Maori culture, told in the words of the Maori people and their ancestors.

Bill Manson and a film crew follow the aid sent to Africa with Operation Hope on the vessel Ngahere - to see just where it ended up. The trail takes then through war-torn Eritrea in search of the bulldozer from Twizel, and into the camps of Sudan looking for the wheat and peas - and milk and honey. Did it ever reach the mouths of the poor and starving?

Can the Easter Island's indigenous Rapa Nui win the fight for independence from Chile to protect their land and culture?

A day in the life of the national broadcaster, from the technicians maintaining coverage to the programme makers. There were two channels, TV One, broadcast from Avalon Studios, Wellington and TV2, broadcast from Shortland St Studios, Auckland. The main newsroom was in Auckland and the bulletins were broadcast from Shortland St Studios. Preparation for the live 6.30pm News bulletin is shown. The casts and crews from the comedy / satire show McPhail and Gadsby and the costume drama series, Country GP are shown at work.

The West produces too much food, yet the Third World goes hungry. Now a trade war is gathering pace between the agricultural superpowers - the United States and the European Economic Community (EEC). This documentary examines the problems of over-production on both sides of the Atlantic, the political manoeuvring and the search for solutions. The programme demonstrates how governments pay to produce food, pay to store and pay to get rid of surpluses

A survey the one channel period, from the first transmission in 1960 until the end of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1975.

The second of two documentaries about the history of television in New Zealand focuses on the decade since the introduction of a second channel in 1975.

A documentary about New Zealander Nola Luxford, now living in the United States. Nola's life has included many careers - a star of Hollywood's silent screen, a leading stage actress, a journalist and broadcaster. But it is for her hospitality to the young Australian and New Zealand servicemen on leave in New York before going to the European front that she is most fondly remembered by New Zealanders. A campaigner for international peace all her life, she has openly criticised American nuclear arms policy.

A documentary about the partnership of American director James Ivory, Indian producer Ismail Merchant and Polish-born writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, which has resulted in twenty-three years of Merchant Ivory films. The film gives an insight into the financial and artistic tightrope-walking that goes on in the movie world.

A BBC documentary production showing a Maori view of New Zealand, of the way they see it now and what they hope it will become. It includes interviews with people like Donna Awatere, a young Maori radical who renounced an operatic career in order to serve the Maori renaissance.

Peter Hawes, a self-confessed semi-author from Westport, ventures over Auckland's southern boundary to record his zany impressions of New Zealand's largest city, aided and abetted by some of the locals.

New Zealand's adventure tourism industry has become a magnet for thrill-seekers, but how safe is it?

After the fall of Rome, the spotlight shifted away from the war in Italy, but the New Zealanders still had more than a year of heavy fighting ahead of them, against some of the toughest troops in the world. Even when Germany surrendered, the Kiwis were still in danger. Now they faced an enormous force of communist partisans, and Freyberg's task would be to avoid sparking a new war between East and West.

In 1943, the first echelon of New Zealand troops - all volunteers - returned to New Zealand on three months' leave. They were given to understand that their days on the front line were over. Fifty percent of the returned servicemen were declared unfit to resume their duties. The Prime Minister was caught in a dilemma; the soldiers were ordered to return to active duty. This documentary is the story of the returned soldiers and their revolt against authority.

Much of New Zealand's native forests have been felled.

New Zealand's geothermal regions are under increasing pressure.

When Merv Smith left Radio New Zealand's (RNZ) station 1ZB in January, he turned Auckland radio upside-down. 1ZB's ratings plummeted after changing its format and importing a new star. This documentary looks at a radio station's struggle to claw its way back into the market.

"We can leave the works, stand up and take our place in business - and enjoy doing it." A documentary looking at the work of Mana Enterprises, a loan scheme to support Maori economic development and business initiatives. It's aim is to lift the Maori people from third-world status to full economic partnership.

Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand's first woman lawyer, was one of the first in the world. Her story is counterpointed by comments from today's women lawyers who show that many of the challenges that faced Ethel still exist today.

A documentary about Karen Poutasi, who combines working as the Superintendent of Middlemore Hospital while being a mother to four children. This documentary was made at The University of Auckland by Barbara Cairns for her Diploma of Broadcast Communications.

A documentary about the nursing profession in New Zealand, looking at the special skills that are required, primary health care initiatives in the community, the Kohanga Reo movement and New Zealand's nuclear-free status.

When war erupted in 1939, New Zealand promised Britain she would send a complete army division to help in the struggle against the Nazis. Yet there were only 600 full-time Kiwi soldiers. Freyberg's task would be to raise the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and lead it into battle - in Greece and on Crete.

At the turn of the century Bernard Freyberg was an average pupil at Wellington College. Yet within a few years he would be a national hero, and darling of Britain's smart set. This first episode traces Freyberg's astonishing rise to prominence.

After the twin disasters of Greece and Crete, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force regrouped in Egypt. Soon the Kiwis would be thrown into some of their most devastating battles, the desert campaign against Rommel's panzers. At times the fate of the whole division would hang in the balance.

After their costly victory over Rommel in North Africa, the New Zealanders were moved to another front, in the rain and mud of Italy. Freyberg was placed in command of one of the most difficult operations of the war - the attempt to break through the German line at Cassino. His actions sparked an international controversy that has raged for nearly half a century.

A look at efforts to adapt products to different markets and the methods used to sell them.

Leeza Gibbons takes a tour of the South Island's more spectacular areas. Between Queenstown and the Marlborough Sounds she meets familiar Kiwis including: Keri Hulme, Dave Dobbyn, Malcolm McNeill, Sam Hunt and Barry Crump.

A profile of Bryan Gould: once the all-New Zealand boy, now a leading Labour MP in Britain. Gould returns home to look at his past and to offer his views on New Zealand's present problems to the pupils of his old school and to the Prime Minister.

This episode examines the history of New Zealand exports; the goods being produced for international trade; the way such goods are being produced; the market they are being sold to.

This episode examines the search for new export products and new international markets.

Which takes precedence in control and authority on a school marae - the school rules or tikanga Maori? This programme looks at the issues involved by visiting the marae at Birkdale College in Auckland.

This episode examines New Zealand's relationship with the United States, in particular the affluence of California, and the impact this has had on New Zealand product development and advertising.

An examination of New Zealand's relationship with Japan. What role with Japan play in New Zealand's economic and trade future?

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Discussion covers; attempts to reform by the communist parties themselves; the luke warm Yugoslavs - Prague Spring; the high point, and ultimate defeat for reform; Communism in Eastern Europe - hope springs eternal; Euro communism as heir to the Czech experiment. Edward Goldstucker, former communist, Head of Writer's Union, Prague. Peter Wiles, Professor of Economics of the Soviet Union, London School of Economics Pavel Tigrid, Editor of the Czech Journal, Witness Adam Roberts, Specialist on Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, London School of Econoomics Yvonne von Hartel, 1968 Prague Student Leader Philip Windsor, International Affairs Specialist, London School of Economics Leszek Kolakowski, former Polish Communist Party member, Professor of Philosophy, Warsaw University

A discussion about Virginia Wolfe the writer whose work between the wars was widely acclaimed for its originality.

A portrait of Joseph Conrad, who was born Polish in the Ukraine but wrote in English and gave English literature some of its best sea stories. Followed by a discussion of his works.

A portrait of the poet and a discussion of her work.