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.

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

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...
This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea. The 'Clown of the Alps' is heralded as the w...

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

How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...

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

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

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

This is the story of a Greek physician who collects pendants and bracelets. This is the story of an ...

In 1999, the largely conservative Wairarapa district in New Zealand elected a former cabaret perform...

Featuring exclusive interviews with survivors, paramedics and festival staff, this documentary exami...

Follow the charming Aotearoa New Zealand singer-songwriter on a life-changing journey of self-explor...

A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched...

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

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

Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential towe...

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

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on ...

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