Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Documentary: 291 Films to Buy & Rent
- Last Post, The (2003)
- Dir. Dan Cleary, James Hollings
- A documentary of local significance, yet universal application, charting the last week of operations for the long–running Wellington newspaper…
- Ngatahi - Know the Links (2003)
- Dir. Dean Hapeta
Feat. Dean Hapeta
- An extended voyage by Upper Hutt Posse–founder Dean Hapeta through the self–determining cultures of many of the world’s indigenous…
- Peter Blake - Death on the Amazon (2003)
- Investigative documentary about the death of famed New Zealand yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, who was sailing up the Amazon River in 2001 before being…
- Real Middle Earth, The (2003)
- Jim Hickey embarks on a journey into the making the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, touring the NZ countryside and talking with Peter Jackson (and many…
- Test, The (2003)
- Television documentary celebrating 100 years of rugby with New Zealand's All Blacks.
Includes interviews with various legends of the game –…
- Captain's Log (2002)
- Feat. Peter Elliot
- Peter Elliot sails around New Zealand retracing Captain Cook's voyage of discovery in 1769. Travelling on 20 different boats, this television series…
- Children of Gallipoli (2002)
- Dir. Anna Cottrell
- Interesting documentary interviews the grandchildren of four combatants in the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign of WWI – involving Turkish and New…
- Coffee, Tea or Me? (2002)
- Dir. Brita McVeigh
- An engaging lowkey look at the experiences of seven woman who worked as air hostesses in the 1960s and 70s.
Similiar in tone to the documentaries…
- Flying Visit, A (TV Series) (2002-2003)
- Former TVNZ weatherman Jim Hickey channels the heritage of his father as a WWII Spitfire pilot and flies a Cessna 182 around New Zealand airstrips,…
- Georgie Girl (2002)
- Dir. Annie Goldson
- The unique and quite remarkable life story of Georgina Beyer, born George, a Maori transsexual and former sex–worker, who recently was elected…