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Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand When Worlds Collide
Season 1 , Episode 3Early contact between Māori and European was filled with danger and promise for both sides. Whalers, sealers, traders and missionaries arrived. The muskets they brought would lead to terrible tribal wars and mass internal migration. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand Flags and Nations
Season 1 , Episode 4A look at the point in New Zealand's history when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed and Pākeha settlers began to pour in. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand (2005) The Golden Weather
Season 1 , Episode 11A look at New Zealand during one of the most prosperous and stable periods in our history, the 50's and early 60's. It was a time of suburban growth, full employment and farming success, as New Zealand basked in "the golden weather". -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand Hope and Heroes
Season 1 , Episode 10This episode tells the story of New Zealand under the first Labour government, from 1935 to 1949. Radical reforms were introduced and the country struggled through another world war. It was a time of "hope and heroes". -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand Generations
Season 1 , Episode 12The story of the social and political upheavals between 1965 and 1984, a time of change when the dreams of two generations. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand Breaking Free
Season 1 , Episode 13The final episode of Frontier of Dreams tells the story of the dramatic changes in New Zealand's social, economic and political structure during the decades after 1984. It was a time of great upheaval for all sectors of society, an age of "breaking free." -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand The Last Place on Earth
Season 1 , Episode 1Millions of years ago, the largest islands of the South Pacific rose from the ocean to become home to specialised plants and animals adapted to a unique environment. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand Treasure Islands
Season 1 , Episode 2In more recent times Polynesian voyagers crossed the Pacific to finally make landfall on the shores of the 'long bright cloud'. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand The Explosive Frontier
Season 1 , Episode 5The growing trade, economic success and the fertile tribal lands of Māori in the central North Island bred envy among the rising tide of settlers. Fighting erupted in Waikato and quickly became a civil war. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand The Rush to be Rich
Season 1 , Episode 6As the horrors of civil war consumed the North Island, gold was discovered in Otago, leading to the best, wildest and most prosperous times for the South Island. -
Frontier of Dreams - The Story of New Zealand God's Own Country
Season 1 , Episode 7A look at how economic collapse led to the reforming zeal of one of New Zealand's great governments, the Liberals, with Dick Seddon at the helm, striving to turn a struggling colony into God's Own Country. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand The Price of Empire
Season 1 , Episode 8The story of New Zealand's first active involvement in the wider world, from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the armistice ending World War I. -
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand The Rise and Fall of Happy Homes
Season 1 , Episode 9The horrors of World War I were followed by the flu pandemic, and though the 20's promised a better life, the bright lights were dimmed by the Great Depression, which caused widespread ruin and despair.
