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.

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 ...

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

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

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

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

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

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

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, includin...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...