On December 9, 2019, New Zealand's most active volcano erupted, engulfing 47 day trippers in a toxic ash cloud. 21 lost their lives that day and in the following weeks. Whakaari: A Heroes' Story paints a picture of the chaos and the bravery, and the complex rescue mission to save those stranded on the island.

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...
This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea. The 'Clown of the Alps' is heralded as the w...

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...

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

Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the plane...

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

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

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activit...

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyew...

On July 18th of 1995, Montserrat's sleeping volcano rumbled back to life after hundreds of years of ...

"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The fil...

A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched...
Using film footage shot by the Genevese film director, Fernand Reymond, in Bangladesh in 1972, this ...

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

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

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

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doe...

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