This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The film captures the shock, anger and grief driven into the heart of the local community, but also the humour, purpose and overwhelming positivity when people join together with a common goal.

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

In the years since New Zealand politicians began to grapple with climate change our greenhouse gas e...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

In this spectacular feature-length documentary, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and an NFB crew sail ...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

Patrick Bourgeois dives into the history of one of the worst naval tragedies that ever occurred in Q...

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...

A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show ...

Barker White documents the environmental impact of the massive BP spill.

This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and an NFB ...

Operation 8 examines the so-called 'anti-terror' raids that took place around New Zealand on October...

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven me...

With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James...

BEYOND CONVERSION is a deep-dive into conversion therapy in Aotearoa through the eyes of Kiwi conver...

A short documentary about freestyle skiing made for the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department...

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labo...