Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand: 809 Films to Buy & Rent
Forgotten Silver (1995)
- Dir. Costa Botes, Peter Jackson
- Costa Botes and Peter Jackson's elaborate and hilarious hoax on the groundbreaking exploits of Kiwi film–making 'legend', Colin MacKenkie.…
Greatest Moments In Sport, The (1995)
- A sterling compilation of world–famous sporting moments, matches and races from from Phar Lap's 1930 Melbourne Cup to Fermin Cacho Ruiz's 1500m…
Hairy Maclary (TV Series) (1995)
- Based on Kiwi Lynley Dodd's world famous series of children's books, here's ten shaggy dog stories animated in two volumes on tape or one DVD.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (TV Series) (1995-1999)
- Feat. Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst
- Hugely popular fantasy series starring Kevin Sorbo as the classic half God/half man who travels through a fantastical ancient Greece in search of…
Last Tattoo, The (1995)
- Dir. John Reid
Feat. Kerry Fox, Rod Steiger, Robert Loggia…
- Kerry Fox stars in this American–Kiwi co–produced WW2 drama as a public health nurse who uncovers a murder mystery and conspiracy…
Mirror, Mirror (TV Series) (1995)
- Feat. Michala Banas, Peter Bensley, Petra Jared…
- Kiwi family series about two teenage girls from alternate periods who can see through identical twin mirrors and travel to one another's time.
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Pacific Rescue (1995)
- Framed around the infamous 1994 rogue storm which hit 40 vessels and aircraft at sea, this is the story of the largest ever sea rescue in the South…
Putting Our Town On the Map (1995)
- Dir. Shirley Horrocks
- An eye–opening documentary about how many New Zealand towns create prominent versions of local icons in their search for distinction and…
War Stories (War Stories our Mothers never told us) (1995)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- Remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid yet articulate and boldy frank…
Xena - Warrior Princess (TV Series) (1995-1996)
- Dir. Charles Siebert, Anson Williams, Gary Jones
Feat. Lucy Lawless
- Spinoff to the iconic 1990s 'Hercules' series, that became a cult in its own right.
Mixing slapstick action and snappy one–liners into a…