Prime Minister Robert Muldoon decides to take a political risk and call a snap election. National is defeated as the Labour Party sweeps into power with their anti-nuclear platform. Upon taking office, David Lange faces pressure from the public and his colleagues to live up to his campaign rhetoric.

An economic crisis is narrowly averted. Realising there is no middle ground on the nuclear issue, Lange and the Labour Government take New Zealand into a new era, cut off from the country's traditional allies.

Stanley Kubrick’s breathtaking 1957 masterpiece starring Kirk Douglas and set in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. Based loosely on the true story of four French soldiers charged with mutiny, this is one of the most powerful antiwar films ever made.

Oh! What a Lovely War is Joan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war which not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. Its originality lay in the fact that it viewed the first world war from the perspective of the common soldier, and that it counterpointed songs from the period with grim battle statistics that appeared in a running newsreel tape above the stage. This recording is from the original 1963 LP. http://castalbums.org/recordings/Oh-What-a-Lovely-War-1963-Original-London-Cast/1843/ Performers: Barry Bethell, Avis Bunnage, Fanny Carby, Judy Cornwell, Larry Dann, Griffith Davies, John Gower, Tony Holland, Godfrey James, Myvanwy Jenn, Colin Kemball, Murray Melvin, Brian Murphy, Mary Preston, George Sewell, Victor Spinetti, Bob Stevenson.

Oh What a Lovely War is Joan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war which not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. Its originality lay in the fact that it viewed the first world war from the perspective of the common soldier, and that it counterpointed songs from the period with grim battle statistics that appeared in a running newsreel tape above the stage.

The life and times and political career of Michael Joseph Savage who was the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand and the architect of the welfare state.

The compelling 1984 drama about an African American officer’s investigation of a murder in a racially charged situation during World War II.

After a drug deal gone bad, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) lies dead on the bathroom floor. Now, his spirit glides through Tokyo watching his sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), and the rest of his bottom-dwelling expat crew as they deal with the aftermath of his death. Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

El Caspar (Edgar M. Flores) is a member of a Mexican gang, but he is quickly growing tired of the life. He has just helped initiate the gang's newest member, and his girlfriend has been murdered by the leader. When he turns on his friends, he ends up with a group of illegal immigrants on a train heading North towards America. One of these is Sayra (Paulina Gaiton), a teenage girl who takes an immediate liking to El Caspar. He knows he is going to be caught and killed by the gang, and he doesn't want her caught in the crossfire.

Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) has become one of the most articulate representatives of the New York neo-nazi movement so much so that the political branch of the movement, led by Lina Moebius (Theresa Russell) and Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), are trying to recruit him to work for them. He's perfect material for a party struggling for prominence - he's young, intelligent, charismatic but also Jewish. As time goes on Danny finds it more and more difficult to mask this from his new found friends and more importantly from himself. The hate of his Jewish ancestry is strong yet despite his hateful and violent exterior, Danny is still unable to delete it from his life. Is it all as stupid as it seemed to him when he was a young teenager?

John Drean is a forest ranger whose 4-year-old daughter Pearl mysteriously disappears in the bush while in his care. The loss of his daughter naturally has a profound effect on John and his family long afterwards. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Drean accidentally burns down his house, and discovers his wife Ana is having an affair with his best friend David, a cop working on Pearl's case. With nothing recognisable left of his life, guilt and grief overwhelm him until an unlikely event brings him back to life. Based on the novel The Paraffin Child by Stephen Blanchard.

An Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn, become friends and share a common bond.

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

George Clooney-directed recreation of events in the 1950s between broadcast journalist Edward R Morrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy relating to the Senates Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations.

A troubled young rugby player is given the choice between jail and playing for a rival team coached by a man known for producing champions. Based on a true story.

A man and a woman inexplicably thrown together amid violence and chaos quickly find themselves on the run from many adversaries.

Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II.

Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family which was tragically affected by the war is forced to emigrate to America.

Suffering tuberculosis, an Inuit hunter leaves his northern home and family to recuperate at a sanitorium in Quebec. Unable to communicate with staff, he is devasted by the effects of his isolation.

Gianni, a happily retired bachelor in his late 50s, finds himself spending the August bank holiday stuck at home with his aged mother and three other assorted old biddies on his hands.

Harry has everything; the Brighton Beach mansion, the beautiful wife, a son, and a successful business. But Harry stands to lose all of that as a result of slapping Hugo at Hector's birthday. Harry tries to downplay the seriousness of what could happen to Sandi, his wife, who is very agitated. He turns to his cousin Hector, for support, but Hector is torn between his loyalty to his wife, who is best friends with Rosie, and his family. Harry's anxiety continues when Gary rings late one night threatening to go to the media. Harry has lunch with a lawyer friend, who reassures Harry that he has nothing to worry about, but Harry is not convinced. When Hector suggests to Harry that perhaps he should talk to Gary and Rosie and apologise, he is at first furious at the idea, but when Manolis warns him that he is turning into his father who died angry, he relents. But his apology to Gary and Rosie doesn't go as planned, with Rosie refusing to accept it. She further antagonises him by asking him if he beats Sandi and Rocco. Harry's anger boils and he runs out of the house before he loses control again. Not being able to shake his anger, he returns to Gary and Rosie's house later that night with a crowbar. He is about to get out of his car when he is haunted by an image of his father. As he drives home, Sandi calls him to tell him that Rocco has run away. When Harry finds him, Rocco breaks down blaming himself for Harry slapping Hugo. Harry is distraught at what this is doing to his family. When he arrives home, the police arrive to question him. Screenplay by Brendan Cowell ; directed by Matthew Saville. Starring: Anthony Hayes, Diana Glenn, Toula Yiannis, Steve Mouzakis, Andrew Petrious, Katherine Halliday, Raffaele Costabile, Julian Mineo, Adrian Van Der Heyden.

It’s the eve of Hector’s 40th birthday and his wife Aisha has organised a barbecue with their friends and family. Hector is ambivalent about celebrating the milestone and longs for the carefree days of his youth. He loves his wife, but her controlling nature and singular focus on the party only serve to heighten these feelings. Nonetheless, Hector is a genial host. The party begins, and tensions arise almost immediately between Hector’s mother Koula and Aisha. Koula has catered, despite Aisha’s protestations, and she and Manolis have bought Hector a birthday present – a family trip to Greece – which clashes with Aisha and Hector’s planned trip to Bali. When Hector refuses to confront his parents about it, Aisha is infuriated by what she sees as his loyalty to family over her. Hector escapes by taking drugs and flirting with 17-year-old Connie, the teenager he’s having an affair with. As the day progresses and guests arrive, frictions between the adults and children emerge. Hugo, the four- year-old son of Rosie and Gary, persistently creates havoc amongst the other kids, picking fights, breaking other kids’ games, and refusing to play by the rules. However rather than disciplining him, Rosie dotes on him, refusing to acknowledge his problematic behaviour. There are clear familial and social divisions within the group, and differences in race, culture, wealth, and morality, shape the way people interact. When another fight amongst the kids breaks out, Hector tries to remedy it with a game of backyard cricket. But things quickly turn ugly when Hugo throws a tantrum after Hector’s nephew Rocco, bowls him out. Swinging the cricket bat in fury, Hugo refuses to sit out of the game. When Harry spies this and fears that his son Rocco might be in danger, he slaps Hugo. Rosie and Gary are outraged. This event and what follows divides the group as each person at the barbecue is forced to take a side. Screenplay, Kris Mrksa ; directed by Jessica Hobbs, Starring: Jonathan LaPaglia, Sophie Okonedo, Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades, Essie Davis, Lex Marinos, Sophie Lowe, Blake Davis.

Rosie receives notification of the court date. Finally Harry will be punished for what he did. But her relief is short lived when she realises she is alone in her crusade. Aisha won't attend the trial as it puts her in a difficult position with her family and Anouk won't testify as she's staying out of it. Even Hector wants nothing to do with it, and is only going because he's been summonsed. When Rosie starts to doubt herself her spirits are lifted by Shamira, a guest at the BBQ who contacts her and agrees to testify as a witness against Harry. Thrilled to have an ally Rosie tells Gary, but he hates that things have gone this far and pleads with her to let it go. Rosie refuses, she's in too deep, and Gary lashes out revealing his disdain for his wife.The day of the court case arrives and Gary and Rosie are barely speaking. Hector gives his statement, then Rosie, and then the prosecution annihilates her. Harry's lawyer assassinates her character, revealing that Gary is an alcoholic and that Rosie suffered from post-natal depression. Her irresponsibility and questionable parenting skills become the reason things escalated that day. Harry is found guilty but with no conviction recorded as the offence is deemed so minor. Rosie is shaken to the core. She returns home and lies to Hugo, telling him Harry was punished, but the ordeal has changed everything. Screenplay by Cate Shortland ; Directed by Robert Connolly. Starring: Anthony Hayes, Diana Glenn, Gillian Jones, Tony Briggs, Peta Brady, Toula Yiannis, Julian Mineo, Carlin Briggs, Soraya Briggs.

The Most Fun You Can Have Dying tells the tale of young and charming Michael, who learns he has just a few months to live. Determined to have the time of his life, Michael borrows the money raised for his treatment and heads overseas. He is determined to be carefree and irresponsible, with no ties or attachments, everything goes as planned until he meets and falls in love with Sylvie, a beautiful and enigmatic young French woman.

Michelle Williams plays twenty-eight-year-old Margot, who is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist that lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Warmly human, funny and bitter-sweet, Take This Waltz paints an unusually true and unsentimental portrait of adult relationships.

Set in a Louisiana parish, lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated, eccentric mother and let go of a painful past.

Tokyo, 1968. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Watanabe's personal life is similary in tumult. Deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, their complex bond is threatened when the outgoing, vivacious Midori marches into his life, forcing Watanabe to choose between his past and his future. Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami.

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Unmarried Manhattan couple Marion (Julie Delpy) the photographer and Mingus (Chris Rock) the radio jock, who each have a young child from prior relationships, find their comfortable family dynamic jostled by a visit from Marion's relatives: her father Jeannot (Albert Delpy), her sister Rose (Alexia Landeau) and Rose's annoying boyfriend Manu (Alex Nahon). To add to the tension, they all arrive on the eve of Marion's one woman exhibition of photographs - where she will also offer to sell her soul.

After being banished from Berlin for trying to obtain a travel visa, Barbara (Nina Hoss) finds herself isolated in a secluded East German village during the summer of 1980 where she works at the local medical clinic. Subject to constant supervision and searches by a menacing GDR officer (Rainer Bock, The White Ribbon) and unable to take so much as an evening stroll without looking over her shoulder, she quickly searches for a way to leave the Eastern bloc once and for all. But her yearnings are gradually transformed as she grows closer to the clinic's head doctor, Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld), a gentle loner who's forced to keep tabs on Barbara and whose intentions are never quite clear, though they appear to be good-natured. Their bond is further enhanced by a love of the profession that has them working overtime to care for two troubled patients: a rebellious teenage runaway, Stella (Jasna Fritzi Bauer), and a young man (Jannik Schumann) who attempted suicide for reasons we will learn about later on.

A suspenseful tale of love and family upended by obsession and suspicion, Circumstance is also a provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture, where a young woman's most electrifying passions can become the most dangerous of secrets.The Audience Award winner at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Maryam Keshavarz's debut feature boldly takes filmgoers inside a modern Iran rarely witnessed by outsiders: an exhilarating, invisible realm of illicit parties where young hipsters risk arrest, and their futures, as they experiment with sex, drugs and defiance, all while trying to evade the authorities.

Compliance is based on a bizarre true story and stars Ann Dowd as Sandra, the middle-aged manager of a fast food joint, who receives a call from someone purporting to be a police officer (Pat Healy), accusing one of her teenage employees (Dreama Walker as Becky) of having stolen money from a customer. Sandra duly complies with the officer's request and detains Becky, ostensibly until the police arrive, but the officer's demands become increasingly inappropriate and events take an extremely dark turn.

Anton Chekhov's The Duel is a sumptuous literary adaptation from the director of Late Marriage. Based on a short story by the great Russian playwright, The Duel deals with a passion that has turned to dust in the hot sun, and the animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life.

Determined to meet his birth mother, 18-year-old Aaron is forced to hitch a ride with a rough looking stranger. (NZ short film)

Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody," who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

This classic film is the brilliant character study of a musician with great promise who gives up a career to work on an oil rig. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.

La Strada tells the story of Gelsomina (Masina), a simple Italian girl who is sold by her poor family into the charge of Zampanò (Quinn), a brutal traveling strongman. As the two travel the outskirts of Rome, Gelsomina begins to feel a compassion for the chauvinistic and bestial Zampanò, who treats her like little more than an animal. Soon, this compassion blossoms into love, both maternal and romantic, as the girl eventually comes to realize that traveling with this creature is her purpose in life. But when Zampanò's brutal nature leads to tragedy, the lives of the characters are sent spiraling downward into an inescapable fate.

The Kavanagh Building in Buenos Aires was a spite-fueled project by Corina Kavanagh to obstruct the sight line of an aristocratic family who had spurned her daughter. That's just one of the architectural observations made by Mariana (Pilar López de Ayala) and Martin (Javier Drolas), who both agree with that the architecture of a city reveals something about the soul of its people; so what does it say that both of these denizens of contemporary Buenos Aires are hyper-intellectual and hopelessly neurotic? They're also both young and attractive, making for a perfect romantic comedy couple but with the very real obstacle of the two people never actually meeting. Mariana studied architecture but works as a shop window dresser; Martin works as a Web designer. She has a phobia of elevators and obsesses over a Where's Waldo? puzzle; he has a meticulously prepared backpack, which includes a collection of Tati films, in case of panic attacks. They both live in cramped shoebox apartments on the same street, and the film is a chronicle of their near misses as they deal with their own separate romantic misfortunes.

Zac Hobson (the late, great Bruno Lawrence) wakes to find he may be earth's only survivor of a catastrophic error in the secret energy project on which he's been engaged. Though the aftermath leaves him momentarily dazed, then gleefully enjoying the freedom to take anything he has ever wanted, Zac's isolation and guilt soon begins to get to him. Some of the film's most bizarre scenes see Zac proclaiming himself world dictator, trying on a little transvestitism, and finally challenging God to a duel. Later it is revealed that Zac is not the only survivor of "the effect", and with the arrival of Joanne and Api the film changes focus. This apocalyptic fantasy thriller makes the most of modest special effects, but Lawrence's eerie portrait of loneliness bordering on madness is the film's strength. Won Best Actor and Best Direction at the 1986 International Fantasy Festival. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985, based on the novel by Craig Harrison.

The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. Based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers.

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

After committing a shocking crime, Gary Cradle secretly decides to change his life and become a good person. However, deciding is one thing, changing a life is another.

Seraphine is the story of a devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 self taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel began painting brilliantly colourful canvasses.

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.

In 1844, in the final era of the Shogun, the cruel young Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki) terrorises and brutalises his people, enjoying immunity from the law. He hopes to join the Council of his half brother and with the powers that come with his status, aims to turn his territory into his suffering playing. A secret plan is hatched by insiders to hire a group of samurai to assassinate him. The leader is chosen first, Shinzaemon (Koji Yakusho), who gathers 11 other samurai through his nephew Shinrokuro (Takayuki Yamada) and a network of connections. They are also joined by a forest dwelling young warrior, Koyata (Yusuke Iseya). The 13 men make plans to ambush Naritsugu and his men during a long journey to a clan across the land.

A revealing documentary window into the lives of nine New Zealand gay men aged 24 through 78, Men Like Us highlights the common threads in our continuing struggle for everyday happiness in a straight man's world. It's a tapestry of uplifting and challenging tales of ordinary men overcoming the extraordinary obstacles that life throws in our way, including body image and masculinity, bullying and bereavement, migration and ageing, HIV, cultural identity and spirituality. A unique look into the stories behind the faces we see every day in our bars, at our pride events, and on our smartphones, the diverse stories in Men Like Us are a sharp reminder that simple conversation and caring can change the course of our lives for the better.

Point Blank stars Gilles Lellouche as hapless hospital orderly Samuel, whose pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is suddenly kidnapped. Samuel then receives a phone call, ordering him to break heavily guarded patient Hugo (Roschdy Zem) out of hospital if he ever wants to see his wife again. Samuel manages to get Hugo away from the police but things quickly go from bad to worse as he discovers he's caught in the middle of a vicious war between ruthless criminals and corrupt cops. When the police name Samuel as a fugitive, he realises he's going to have to join forces with Hugo if he's going to have a hope of rescuing Nadia.

Thomas Newton (David Bowie) is a mysterious man. Appearing out of nowhere, Newton makes the acquaintance of patent lawyer Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry). It seems Newton is a genius and has developed many fascinating new inventions. Using this newly patented technology, these two men start a company called World Enterprises. Soon, WE is everywhere, and the firm and Newton are known around the world. But like Howard Hughes, Newton shuns the public. No one really knows who he is or what he wants. All that we can determine is that he does have some agenda, for he needs to make as much money as possible. For what? We don't know. Unorthodox college professor Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn) is highly intrigued by the enigmatic Newton. He has studied Newton for years, and now he has been hired by World Enterprises to work on their new space project. Now on the inside, Bryce, like so many others, wants to know Newton, but he remains distant from everyone. But this new space project is very important to Newton, and he soon visits Bryce to encourage the professor to explore certain avenues. As the two men meet, Bryce begins to think he's discovered Newton's secret. Bryce thinks Newton is an extraterrestrial trying to return to his home planet.Years pass and Newton seems to defy aging. He remains as youthful and pale as the first day Farnsworth met him. Edging closer and closer to his secret goal, Newton becomes restless. What is Newton's goal? Who is he? Is he really an alien or just an eccentric man?

Drama telling the story of how serial killers Fred and Rosemary West were brought to justice. In 1994 the life of Gloucestershire voluntary worker Janet Leach is turned upside down when she is asked by police to sit in on interviews as an independent safeguard on behalf of a man they have arrested. Within minutes he makes a shocking confession of murder. From then on she is drawn into the centre of the investigation and a complex personal relationship with West, who tells her information about other victims that she cannot pass on to the authorities because of her obligation of confidentiality to him.