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Documentary New Zealand - The Other Olympiad
A New Zealand documentary about six Kiwi high school 'mathletes' competing for medals in the 2004 International Maths Olympiad in Athens. -
Documentary New Zealand - Get a Life Coach
A documentary about the increasingly popular phenomenon of "life coaching". Is it a new form of therapy or just another trip for self-help junkies? -
Documentary New Zealand - World Extra: Palestine is Still the Issue
The film was inspired by Amira Haas' book "Drinking the Sea at Gaza". -
Documentary New Zealand - Murder on the Blade
One of New Zealand's highest profile investigations began on January 2, 1998 after young friends Olivia Hope and Ben Smart disappeared in the early hours of the New Year's morning. The pair were last seen by Furneaux Lodge water taxi operator Guy Wallace, who ferried them, along with a mystery stranger, to a yacht moored in the Marlborough Sounds Endeavour Inlet. Scott Watson was eventually convicted of their murders. However, despite massive official and private searches of the Sounds, their bodies have never been found. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ: The Real Middle Earth:
Jim Hickey introduces viewers to some of the locals involved in Peter Jackson's trilogy. The Nelson jeweller who forged the "One Ring" and the Richmond brewer who concocted a special one percent alcohol brew for the Prancing Pony pub scenes talk about their involvement in the films. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ - Safe as Houses
A documentary that investigates the benefits and pitfalls of residential rental properties for landlords and tenants. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ - Speed Thrills
A documentary that looks at why an increasing number of New Zealanders travel at excessive speeds on our roads, and what can be done to discourage them. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ - Fence Jumpers
A documentary that explores the lives of four gay men and women who have left their marriages to embrace their true identities. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ: Long Lost Sons
NZ born Polynesian brothers Jason and Kris Faafoi take the opportunity to visit their homeland of Tokelau, for the first time. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ: Missing Out:
A documentary that examines the problems behind the thousands of regular truants in New Zealand's education system. -
Documentary New Zealand - A Flock of Students
A documentary shot in the style of a wildlife programme that looks at the lives of a group of students at Otago University. -
Documentary New Zealand - World Extra: Michael Jackson's Face
A documentary about the pop prince whose strange behaviour and alarming appearance have earned him the epithet "Wacko Jacko". The documentary examines the effect of the media, the gossip about his lightened skin and altered face, the accusations of child molestation and substandard parenting and his unlikely unions with Lisa Marie Presely and Debbie Roe. -
Documentary New Zealand - Mental Breakdown
No end credits -
Documentary New Zealand - St John 24/7
A documentary that follows the professional staff and volunteers of St John as they tend to the sick and injured over a long weekend. -
Documentary New Zealand - For the Love of Carolina
A documentary about Carolina Anderson, the Auckland girl who was seriously mauled by a dog earlier this year, and whose father subsequently campaigned to change the current dog laws. -
Documentary New Zealand - Mothers behind Bars
Mothers in prison and the effect on their children and families -
Documentary New Zealand - Who Was Here Before Us?:
A documentary piecing together the fragments of NZ's oldest and most puzzling mystery - the first settlement of Aotearoa. Controversial new carbon dating information indicates someone set foot on NZ shores 2000 years ago, 1200 years before Maori colonised in significant numbers. -
Documentary New Zealand - The Real New Zealand
A documentary that goes behind the scenes of a fast-growing area of NZ tourism - homestays and farmstays. Places featured include Thorndael in Blenheim run by former All Black Graham Thorne and his wife Briony, Autumn Farm in Golden Bay which attracts guests from all over the world, and the "seafood paradise" of Stewart Island. -
Documentary New Zealand - Stepping Out:
A documentary following six young urban Maori on a 13-day, 300km trek as they retrace the ancient route of their ancestor Tohe across some of the most isloated land in the country. Tohe died before he reached his destination, will his descendants make it? -
Documentary New Zealand - Beating the System:
A documentary about four teengae students through a year at Aranui High's sports academy. Four years ago, Aranui High's principal, Graeme Plummer, rearranged the school's timetable to accommodate sport as a subject. Now, the academy's teams have won national secondary school's championships for rugby, rugby league and touch and academic results have improved markedly. -
Documentary New Zealand - Cancer: The Fighting Spirit
A documentary about the medical journeys of Dr Ross McLeod and Trish Birnie, two people diagnosed with cancer, and the choices they make as they battle the disease and try to stay alive. -
Documentary New Zealand - 1981: A Country at War
In 1981 a Springbok rugby team toured NZ in spite of the Gleneagles Agreement. Opposition to the tour caused massive civil disobedience and was matched by an equal police response. Now 20 years later the rank and file of both sides discuss how the tour changed their lives. -
Documentary New Zealand - The Price of Fame
Those interviewed include TrueBliss, Danyon Loader, Stu Wilson, Angela D'Audney and Bunny Walters who talk about the pressures and pitfalls of life in the fast lane. Truebliss singers Joe Cotton, Keri Harper, Erika Takacs, Carly Binding and Megan Alatini. -
Documentary New Zealand - Joe Bennett's Guide to the Corridors of Power:
Writer, columnist and satirist Joe Bennett travels up to Wellington and tries to make light of the dark side of the force. He meets lobbyists, PR flakes, spin doctors, sundry paid liars, NGOs, think tanks and politicians. -
Documentary New Zealand - Georgie Girl
The sensational life story of Transsexual MP Georgina Beyer. Beyer was a boy on a farm in Taranaki and a transvestite in the strobe-lit nightclubs in Wellington and Auckland before being elected to high political office as a woman. -
Documentary New Zealand - 1951: The Waterfront Conflict
In 1951, the National Government led by Sid Holland tried to break the Waterside Worker's Union headed by the charismatic Jock Barnes. The Tories implemented a string of hard-line measures, including the infamous Emergency Regulations, which made it a crime to offer food or assistance to a locked-out worker's family. However, the wharfies resisted the totalitarian power of the state for 151 days. -
Documentary New Zealand - Otara Market
Oscar Kightley takes a tour through the Otara Markets. -
Documentary New Zealand - When the Landlord Comes to Call:
A documentary about Housing NZ in Auckland and its tenancy managers, who are the first stop for most new arrivals whether they are migrants from the Pacific or Asia, or refugees from places like Africa, the Middle East or South America. -
Documentary New Zealand - Behind Closed Doors - Inside the Family Court
A documenatry about a month in the life of a Family Court Judge, John Adams. For the first time cameras were allowed inside the Otahuhu and Papakura Family Courts where Adams dealt with an array of cases, including approving adoptions and guardianship arrangements, overseeing difficult Social Welfare referrals, protection orders and paternity orders, mediating between couples fighting over children, marriage dissolutions and matrimonial property disputes. -
Documentary New Zealand - Rugby Wives
Rugby Wives: The story of the nation's noblest women - those chosen to marry the mighty All Blacks. -
Documentary New Zealand - Teen Dads
The stereotypical image of the negligent adolescent father is seemingly reinforced by the fact that just under half of the 3768 births each year to teenage mothers have registered fathers. These documentary follows three young fathers who defy the generalisation and films them as they try to balance two very different roles - that of raising a child and very nearly being a child themselves. -
Documentary New Zealand - Il Maggiore: My Father's War in Italy
More than half a century after the end of WWII, NZ cartoonist Malcolm Evans sets out to retrace his father's experiences as an escaped POW through the mountains of Italy. Major Hillary Evans escaped from Campo 29 in Benghazzi and eluded capture for 10 months. -
Documentary New Zealand - Defending Our Health
The battle against infectious disease - complacently considered a war won - rages on. The increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics and the frightening ability of diseases to mutate and develop into new forms mean that infectious disease is a continued threat to people regardless of age, gender, lifestyle or socio-economic status. -
Documentary New Zealand - DNZ World Extra:Deadly Dogs
A Granada TV Production -
Documentary New Zealand - Dalvanius
Dalvanius Prime was a visionary producer who married Maori vocal harmonies with the ballad format to help create Polynesian soul. He was also a leader, author, activist, teacher, singer and songwriter with a passion for miniature dogs. -
Documentary New Zealand: - Return Home
A documentary telling the stories of three Kiwis who are negotiating their return home after years living overseas. The camera follows the emotional and personal journeys of the trio as they struggle to find their roots, or put down new ones, back in Godzone. -
Documentary New Zealand - Out of the Shadows
Seven New Zealanders talk about being born to famous parents; the bonuses and burdens; the pleasure and the price. Featuring the children of Rob Muldoon, Barry Crump, Donna Awatere Huata, Sukhi Turner, Glen Turner and Sam Hunt. -
Documentary New Zealand - Ngati Ocker
A documentary about the increasing number of Maori living in Australia. -
Documentary New Zealand - White Sheep
A documentary about a group of 14 and 15 year old boys who left their Hawke's Bay home of Wairoa in the late 1950s and early 1960s to start a new life and learn a trade in the predominately white city of Christchurch. These men are now in their 50s and tell how the experience changed them and made them feel special, and how on visits back to Wairoa they felt and looked different from their siblings and had lost their ability to speak Te Reo Maori. -
Documentary New Zealand - Destination Disaster: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov:
A documentary about the sinking of the passenger cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov in the Marlborough Sounds on February 16, 1986. The ship was carrying 738 passengers and crew and dozens of local fishermen and boaties risked their lives to rescue survivors, many of whom never fully recovered. An experienced New Zealand pilot was blamed, and in a secret, out of court settlement the Marlborough Harbour Board made a $5 million payment to the Russioan government. Fourteen years later, those involved, including the shamed Russian Minister Vladislav Vorobyov and his imprisoned Second Mate, tell what happened. -
Documentary New Zealand - My Kainga, My Castle:
Sir Howard Morrison introduces some of his favourite tales of chivalry, love and war that are the legends of his tribe, Te Aarawa, including the famous Hinemoa and Tutanekai love story. -
Wasted
A documentary that examines the social consequences of the drug "P" or pure methamphetamine. -
Documentary New Zealand - The Strange Vehicles Games
According to the website, The Strange Vehicle Games feature "vehicles that can climb any slope, ford any river and mountain grip on any surface". Naturally, Trevor, Steve and Fritz from Albany Mowers were up for it, putting together a new vehicle, Kiwi Dragon, which they took to the first games in Dezhou City in October. We are so there. http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2005/tv-week-34/ Tk 1 on tape -
Documentary New Zealand - New Zild: The Story of New Zealand English
Oft-derided across the dutch for its vowel-mangling pronunciation (sex fush'n'chups anyone?) and too fast-paced for tourists and Elton John to understand, is New Zealand's unique accent. Presented by Jim Mora, New Zild follows the evolution of New Zealand English, from the "colonial twang" to Billy T. Linguist Elizabeth Gordon explains the infamous HRT (High Rising Terminal) ending our sentences, and Mora interprets such phrases as 'air gun' (how are you going?). Features Lyn of Tawa in an accent face-off with Sam Neill and Judy Bailey. https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/new-zild-2005 -
Documentary New Zealand - It's Not a Game
A documentary about the toll that poker machines - a billion-dollar industry - take on ordinary folk. The bright lights and the happy music of pokie machines do not drown out the human harm these machines have caused hundreds of thousands of people around the world. In little pubs and clubs throughout New Zealand pokie machines are happily taking money from thousands of New Zealanders – over 2 billion dollars in 2004 from a population of only 4 million people. http://www.topshelfproductions.co.nz/Shows/its-not-a-game/
