Maori Movies
- 1993
The Piano
The Piano7.41993HD
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor G...
- 2010
Boy
Boy7.42010HD
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee crimin...
- 1994
Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors7.41994HD
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together duri...
- 2014
The Dead Lands
The Dead Lands6.12014HD
Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tr...
- 2010
Tracker
Tracker6.52010HD
An ex-Boer war guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Gradually they grow to know and respec...
- 2005
River Queen
River Queen5.92005HD
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B...
- 1947
Green Dolphin Street
Green Dolphin Street6.11947HD
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...
- 2015
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses6.42015HD
This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young...
- 2019
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen6.72019HD
A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves...
- 1954
The Seekers
The Seekers5.71954HD
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
- 1999
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?6.51999HD
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his late...
- 1961
Two Loves
Two Loves4.91961HD
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her th...
- 2001
Crooked Earth
Crooked Earth6.22001HD
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The elde...
- 2023
We Are Still Here
We Are Still Here52023HD
In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopia...
- 1996
Broken English
Broken English5.91996HD
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her...
- 2023
The Lascar
The Lascar02023HD
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under t...
- 2024
The Convert
The Convert02024HD
A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question, and his faith put to the test, as h...
- 2011
Waitangi - What Really Happened
Waitangi - What Really Happened02011HD
This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi’s 6 February 1840 si...
- 1988
Mauri
Mauri6.51988HD
Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewin...
- 2024
Ka Whawhai Tonu
Ka Whawhai Tonu02024HD
Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864.