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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 6
    The climactic battle begins – Tūwhakairiora takes on his deceitful enemy, encounters betrayal, heartbreak, and an ominous new foe he knows all too well. (Final)
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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 5
    On the eve of the deciding battle, Tūwhakairiora is caught up in unexpected mind games with an enemy that’s never been stronger, and a last minute side mission ends badly.
  • 1:54:00

    Corsage (2022)

    A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman. Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 4
    Tūwhakairiora sets out to eliminate all who don’t support him – only to be offered the chance to save someone he once thought dead. But doing so means risking it all.
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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 3
    Marriage to Ruataupare comes at a price: Tūwhakairiora finds himself caught in a political dog fight, as a spy reports his every move to his ever-more powerful enemy.
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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 2
    Born and raised to seek revenge and reclaim his birthright, Tūwhakairiora grows into a ruthless lone wolf. But given his enemy’s rise, he will need allies – fast.
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    Kairakau

    Season 4 , Episode 1
    When her father’s people turn on their chief and his entire family, Te Ataakura must run for her life to give birth to her only hope, a son to seek utu: Tūwhakairiora.
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    Living (2022)

    In 1950s London, an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis. (Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru".)
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 6
    Wai takes a dip in the creek. Ngaru and Mihi join her. They all waste more time playing. Elsewhere, the farmers are almost at the village. The girls are officially running late. Wai shares her anxiety about the stories of what happened to other villages during and since the wars.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 5
    Wai finds her cousin Nuku with his girlfriend, a Pākehā girl. Wai and Nuku argue and Nuku lets a secret slip. His girlfriend is pregnant. Wai is angry and sends Nuku back to the feast.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 4
    The children play by the creek to cool down on a warm day. They enjoy games with the fairy people of the forest. Wai is happy to take their time. She doesn't really want to go to the feast. The fairies are fun. Wai hears laughter and goes to check it out.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 3
    Wai tries to help prepare for the feast, but Mihi wants to play! Wai and Mihi cause a mess. While cleaning it up, Wai confides in Mihi about the weight she feels on her shoulders, put there by the adults. Wai’s mum sends the girls to the creek to check the eel pots. The girls head off to the creek as the farmers leave for the feast with a cart packed with freshly baked bread.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 2
    Wai apologises to her kuia. Mihi (8) doesn't understand why they are hosting the farmers, so Kuia explains the situation to her. Wai is suspicious of the Pakeha. Kuia drops some wisdom for Wai and Mihi on how to deal with their big emotions about holding the feast.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 1
    The village is excited as they prepare for the hakari or grand feast. We meet the kuia gang as they weave and gossip about the events of the day. Wai gets into an argument with her kuia. Elsewhere, the ex-soldiers, now farmers, are packing their carts for the feast.
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    Kairakau E Moho E

    Season 3 , Episode 5
    The war between Pareihe of Kahungunu and Te Heuheu of Tūwharetoa rages on for many years. Pareihe, fully armed with muskets, attacks and captures Te Heuheu at his stronghold in heartland Tūwharetoa. Te Heuheu, a seer, forsees his own death in a landslide. He makes peace with Pareihe, cementing it with marriage to a mokopuna.
  • 1:36:00

    My Neighbour Adolf = Mi vecino Adolf (2023)

    In 1960s South America, a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbour is Adolf Hitler. Disbelieved, he investigates and reluctantly befriends the man to gather evidence.
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    There's Still Tomorrow = C'è ancora domani (2023)

    Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s - a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended - with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law. She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate - the good with the bad - until one day a mysterious letter arrives.
  • 1:59:00

    The Convert (2023)

    New Zealand in the 1830s is a Maori world, dominated by tribal wars. Seeking redemption from a dark past, lay preacher Thomas Munro is on board a trading vessel heading to the newly established town of Epworth, a British settlement in that far corner of the world. When the ship anchors for repairs, Munro finds himself caught up in a battle between Maori tribes. He witnesses the slaughter of innocents, and with a bloody war now inevitable, he must decide what role he will play and whether his faith is real or of any value.
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    The Quiet Girl = An Cailín Ciúin (2022)

    Rural Ireland. 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 10
    Wai is grief-stricken in the wharekai before she remembers Mihi and Ngaru. Wai, Mihi and Ngaru are ushered by the spirits into the forest. From there they will never forget their home, and as their people have always done, they too will carry on.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 9
    The girls arrive home but the village is eerily quiet. Wai is uneasy and sends Mihi to the eel rack. Mihi stumbles upon Kuia, who has collapsed in the middle of the path. Kuia and Mihi have an emotional goodbye. Elsewhere, Wai is horrified by what she finds in the wharekai.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 8
    Mihi is worried about missing out on delicious kumara! Wai starts to feel uneasy as if something is wrong. She asks Mihi if she can hear drumming. Suddenly, the farmers appear! The girls hide and watch as they leave the village. It's too early for the feast to be finished.
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    Nga Kotiro O Taranaki

    Season 1 , Episode 7
    Wai and Mihi collect the eels. Mihi is worried about being late to the feast, but Wai doesn’t care. Wai, Mihi and Ngaru make their way back to the village but come across a dead huia. They don’t notice a piece of bread that has been nibbled by the bird.
  • 2:00:00

    The Keeper (2018)

    The remarkable true story of Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war who becomes a legendary goalkeeper for Manchester City and finds love amidst the aftermath of World War II.
  • 1:30:00

    Escape from Mogadishu (2021)

    In the late 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a diplomatic skirmish between North and South Korea breaks out on the African continent over the latter's campaign to join the United Nations. In 1991, three years after the opening of a South Korean embassy, Somalia's capital Mogadishu is engulfed in civil war, leaving the South Korean diplomats trapped. The North Korean embassy, meanwhile, faces the same situation. The diplomats of these two nations, who in the outside world are sworn enemies, become targets for the hails of bullets fired by both Somali government forces and the rebels in the chaos of civil war. Risking their lives, they embark on a joint escape. (In Korean, Somali, and English with English subtitles)
  • 1:50:00

    Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

    Summer 1939, 17 days before WWII, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. An English teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem and Miller gets the job six days later, trying to find out what happened.
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    The Eight Hundred = 八佰 (2020)

    In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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    Delicious (2021)

    France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising talented young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first ever restaurant.
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    Mothering Sunday (2021)

    With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
  • 1:45:00

    The Tracker (2002)

    Set in the Australian outback in 1922, this film tells the story of The Fanatic, the Follower and the Philosopher- three white men who use an indigenous Tracker to pursue a Fugitive. Through massacre and murder the hunt continues, until clear-cut notions of truth and justice are subverted and the questions become not, will the fugitive be caught, but what is black and what is white and who is leading whom?
  • 2:10:00

    Operation Mincemeat (2021)

    It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.
  • 2:00:00

    Sami Blood = Sameblod (2016)

    A reindeer-breeding Sami girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. (2016)
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    The Happy Prince (2018)

    The untold story of the last days in the tragic life of Oscar Wilde, a person who observed his own failure with ironic distance and regarded the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humour.
  • 2:20:00

    The Lost City of Z (2016)

    The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide de camp returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925. (Based on the 2009 book 'The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon' by David Grann.)
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    Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

    In the 1930s in outback Australia, three young Aboriginal girls are snatched from their mothers' arms in Jigalong, Western Australia, and sent to a remote settlement at Moore River. Distanced from their mothers and forced to adapt to a strange new world, the girls attempt the impossible and embark on a daring escape. What ensues is an epic journey which tests the girls' will to survive and their hope of finding the rabbit-proof fence to guide them home.
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    Liliu (2018)

    Season 2019
    A court interpreter in colonial Samoa is faced with the choice to risk everything in order to help a wrongfully convicted chief.
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    War Paint (2022)

    A young British soldier is shot and dying before the ramparts of a Pa during the 1864 Invasion of the Waikato in New Zealand. He has given up all hope and resigns himself to death, when a young Maori woman mysteriously comes to his aid. In the conversation which ensues, they find they may have more in common than they have dividing them.
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    Kairakau Te Roto o te Tara II

    Season 3 , Episode 6
    Pareihe, Te Hapuku and Tiakitai have built an army and, with revenge on their minds, they return to Te Roto-a-Tara. Hihiko and Tarakawa’s kinship is threatened.
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    Radioactive (2019)

    The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
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    Kairakau Pukekaikāhu

    Season 2 , Episode 5
    Te Purewa declares war while Ruamahu is consumed by revenge for the deaths of her parents, her great grandparents and her people of Ngāti Awa...
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    Kairakau The Giant to the West

    Season 2 , Episode 6
    Ruamahu settles the score as the battle at Pukekaikāhu erupts. Tūhoe is coming!! Te Pūrewa and Te Ao have arrived at Tionga's pa, luring him and his men into a trap. Mokonuiārangi must choose between securing peace for his people or all out war as Te Pūrewa and his war party seek revenge from Tionga for the deaths of Chief Te Ramaapakura and his beloved wife Te Wewete. [FINAL]
  • 2:10:00

    Selma (2014)

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
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    Skies of Lebanon (2020)

    In the fifties, young Alice leaves her native Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden
  • 1:55:00

    Alone In Berlin (2016)

    How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages of protest across the city. (Based on the novel by Hans Fallada)
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    #ANNEFRANK : PARALLEL STORIES (2019)

    Helen Mirren presents ANNE FRANK: PARALLEL STORIES, marking the 90th birthday of Anne Frank. One secret diary. One imaginary friend. The moving testimony of five survivors. Actress Helen Mirren retraces Anne's life through the pages of her remarkable and enlightening diary, and through the lives of five woman who, as teenage girls, were also deported to concentration camps but escaped the Holocaust.
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    The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana Toiroa

    Episode 1
    A father's comfortable life is threatened when his daughter discovers footprints in their remote homelands in the mystical Tararua mountain ranges.
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    The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana Oriori

    Episode 2
    When Tamatea is chosen to find a revered tohunga living in seclusion in the hills, a supernatural force beckons his little brother Tiaki to follow him. With his pāke in hand, Tiaki is sure his older brother Tamatea will reunite the tohunga with their chief, allowing him to open the spiritual portal to deliver the heir.
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    The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana Whiro

    Episode 3
    Young Whiro is blamed for putting a curse on the village when strange things begin to happen in the sand dunes after her grandmother's burial..Afterr the loss of her kuia, Whiro is unable to wail, she watches from the dunes as her whānau mourn the loss. Her aunties accuse her mother of not raising Whiro to respect tradition.
  • 3:40:00

    Once Upon a Time in America

    A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
  • 0:15:00

    Warbrick (2009)

    London, 1889. Joseph Warbrick, the captain of the worn-out New Zealand Natives rugby team, must inspire his side to play, or risk forfeiting the test match against England.