Hinemoa

Hinemoa 1914

1

The film told the Māori legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai. It is the first dramatic feature film produced in New Zealand.

1914

Tuurngait

Tuurngait 2011

5.80

An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follow his trail, determined to find him before he gets lost on the ice floe...

2011

Ahi Ataahua

Ahi Ataahua 1998

1

This performance-based film could potentially be filed under 'Pasifika tribal fusion'. Cinematographer Waka Attewell captures the talents of percussion group Strike (including then long-haired composer Gareth Farr) and choreographer/dancer Mika.

1998

Wind Song and Rain - a short documentary

Wind Song and Rain - a short documentary 2021

9.00

Hone Tuwhare, New Zealand’s most famous Māori poet, leaves a legacy to the granddaughter he left behind. To reconnect, she writes a love letter to the world. A national treasure whose poetry spanned over 40 years, the world knew Hone Tuwhare. His mokopuna Manaia never did. Now 18 years old, Manaia feels her koro calling her, triggering an emotional journey of connection in te reo Māori to prove there’s another Tuwhare who writes poetry.

2021

Noho Mai

Noho Mai 2026

1

Symbolized in the bird’s flight, a group of Māori, Pākehā and Colombian creatives explore life’s journey, the longing to return to the nest, and the life-giving connection with our ancestors.

2026

Open Looks

Open Looks 2025

1

Opens Looks is a short film told in English and Cook Islands Māori. A story of love, redemption and basketball.

2025

Te Rerenga Wairua

Te Rerenga Wairua 1984

8.00

The spirit of a person killed in a motorway accident runs through forest and beaches on its journey to Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Rēinga). En route it meets tourist buses and other spirits, before reaching the gnarly pohutukawa and making the leap towards Hawaiki-Nui.

1984

Kapua Ngeru

Kapua Ngeru 1970

1

When a mischievous cloud-cat chases a shooting star across the sky, his overprotective sister follows close behind — determined to keep him safe, even as the chase takes them further from home and closer to the unknown.

1970

Ngā Kōtiro o Taranaki

Ngā Kōtiro o Taranaki 2024

1

Set in 1870's Taranaki, Aotearoa. The Land Wars in Aotearoa are over. A Taranaki hapū is planning a feast with Pākehā former soldiers to mark the start of more peaceful times. Not all is what it seems.

2024

Two Stones

Two Stones 2024

1

Hands tap, tracing patterns on rocks. These mineral-rich instruments are collaborators for a sonic performance, the landscape in Aotearoa listens.

2024

N/A

N/A 1970

1

1970

Kala Kunbolk (Colour Country)

Kala Kunbolk (Colour Country) 2023

1

Kala Kunbolk follows women of Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, in their quest to preserve their age old tradition of collecting pandanus leaves and natural colour on country to create handcrafted baskets.

2023

Scenes of Māori Life on the East Coast

Scenes of Māori Life on the East Coast 1923

1

Apirana Ngata, Member of Parliament for Eastern Māori, was keen for the museum group to visit the East Coast to obtain records of his people of Ngāti Porou. In March 1923 the expedition, which included Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck), James McDonald, Elsdon Best and Johannes Andersen, set out for the Ngata homestead at Waiomatatini which was to be their base. From Waiomatatini visits were made to Whareponga, Kahukura, Rangitukia, Te Araroa, Ruatoria and other parts of the district. MacDonald recorded on film traditional skills retained in the area for making fishnets and traps, methods of netting and catching fish, weaving, hand games and music making. Also shown is the digging and storing of kūmara and cooking food in a hāngī.

1923

Cook Islands Maori Medicine

Cook Islands Maori Medicine 2020

1

Nooroa Baker goes out to collect a few ingredients to create a traditional Māori medicine that holds great Mana within and is at risk of being forgotten forever.

2020

House of Death

House of Death 2015

1

Tai Whetuki delves into Māori and Pacific cultural practices pertaining to death and mourning. Haunting and evocative images, accompanied by an elemental soundscape take us on a journey through the intensity and spectacle of communal mourning, in a reflection on grief and the transition of the spirit.

2015

There Is Another Way

There Is Another Way 2021

1

A story of drug addiction, Māori wahine, and the power of recovery.

2021

Purea

Purea 2020

1

A Māori elder must bear the burden of carrying the spirits of her ancestors to their sacred mountain.

2020

Holly's Heroes

Holly's Heroes 2005

1

Holly's Heroes is a children's drama series produced as a collaboration between the Nine Network in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand. It was produced as a series of 26 episodes and first screened in 2005.

2005

Drag Race Down Under

Drag Race Down Under 2021

5.10

Drag queen contestants compete in an elimination-style contest and strut their stuff in a variety of challenges - all to prove that they’ve got what it takes to be Down Under's next Drag Queen Superstar!

2021

Go Girls

Go Girls 2009

5.50

Amy, Britta and Cody are three young women suffering their quarter century crisis: 25 and what have they achieved? They make a vow that in one year they’ll each fulfill their ambition. Their mate-since-childhood Kevin, admires their pluck but, to be honest, since Amy, Britta and Cody are currently Tragically Poor; Tragically Unknown; and Tragically Single, he reckons it’s going to be a bit of an ask.

2009

Educators

Educators 2019

6.00

Set behind the scenes of an ordinary Kiwi secondary school, following the hopelessly and hilariously inept people in charge of educating the next generation.

2019

Auckward Love

Auckward Love 2015

10.00

Auckward Love is show about women doing women stuff. Follow Alice, Vicky, Zoe and Grace as they experience love, lust , and everything else.

2015

The Gulf

The Gulf 2019

6.39

A detective recovering from amnesia caused by a shocking car accident begins to suspect not everything is as it seems, following the reappearance of a young boy.

2019

Epic NPC Man: Dungeons & Dragons

Epic NPC Man: Dungeons & Dragons 2019

9.00

Rowan, Adam, Alan and Britt (dungeon master Robert) play D&D. The four players play as their characters from Epic NPC Man, with whatever happens to the characters being deemed as canon in the Epic NPC Man universe.

2019

Being Eve

Being Eve 2001

1

Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.

2001

Mean Mums

Mean Mums 2019

7.50

Jess must navigate her son's primary school world filled with other mothers keen on advancing their children's futures.

2019

Sensing Murder

Sensing Murder 2006

8.20

Sensing Murder is a television series from New Zealand and Australia, in which psychics are asked to act as psychic detectives to help provide evidence that might be useful in solving famous unsolved murder cases in each country by communicating with the deceased victims.

2006

Kiri and Lou

Kiri and Lou 2019

8.80

"Kiri and Lou" follows the adventures of Kiri, a feisty little dinosaur with overpowering emotions and Lou, a gentle but thoughtful creature. Kiri and Lou live in a forest of cutout paper and other creatures made of clay. They are joined by motherly Pania, sensitive Sorry, who is an extremely fast little animal who cares about everyone, and Dalvanius. Kiri and Lou invite children to learn about empathy, kindness and the true meaning of friendship. Together, these clay creatures navigate a forest of feelings with laughter, adventures and songs.

2019

Patriot Brains

Patriot Brains 2021

5.00

The fast-paced comedy panel show will see each country’s greatest comedian’s pitted against each other to find out who knows their country best, with our host the only thing keeping them apart.

2021

Life Force

Life Force 2010

8.30

Extraordinary show that reveals how forces of nature through sheer power of evolution shaped life in all it's unexpected and glorious forms, and filled our planet with amazing diversity of animals and plants.

2010

Madam

Madam 2024

5.00

Mack Leigh, faced with a philandering husband and a mountain of debt starts up an ethical brothel in small town New Zealand to provide for her family and put a new spin on sex and work.

2024

Vegas

Vegas 2021

6.00

A business owner is thrust into New Zealand's dark underbelly after a million-dollar drug deal goes wrong on a blood-stained night, setting off a chain of events between dangerous factions.

2021

Cleopatra 2525

Cleopatra 2525 2000

5.73

An exotic dancer is frozen in 2001 and unfrozen in 2525 by two female warriors fighting against robots that have taken over the world. The three join forces and try to escape from the underground caves to which humanity has been banished.

2000

Toi Time

Toi Time 2022

1

Meet Tama, Māia, Jojo, Buzz and their whānau Aunty Anika, Wolfy, Oma and Mōhio as they dance, sing and have fun around their whare. Produced by Rogue Productions for TVNZ

2022

Golden Boy

Golden Boy 2019

7.60

Follow the hilarious life of small town girl Mitch as she lives in the constant shadow of her rugby star brother Tama.

2019

The Strip

The Strip 2002

2.33

The Strip is the story of corporate lawyer Melissa Walker, who decides her life needs a new direction and quits her job after finding her husband in bed with his male lover. She opens a male strip club, catering especially for women...

2002

Mystic

Mystic 2020

7.60

A group of horse-mad teenagers who are regulars at their local stables on the fictional NZ peninsula of Kauri Point. Worrying incidents surrounding a new industrial development prove the catalyst for a series of events that means the group have to risk everything in order to save their horses.

2020