Maori Movies

  • 2019
    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    6.72019HD

    This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some...

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
  • 2024
    The Convert

    The Convert

    The Convert

    6.1722024HD

    Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief...

    The Convert
  • 2001
    Crooked Earth

    Crooked Earth

    Crooked Earth

    6.22001HD

    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...

    Crooked Earth
  • 2022
    Whina

    Whina

    Whina

    7.62022HD

    The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed...

    Whina
  • 1961
    Two Loves

    Two Loves

    Two Loves

    4.91961HD

    American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her...

    Two Loves
  • 1993
    The Piano

    The Piano

    The Piano

    7.3811993HD

    When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a...

    The Piano
  • 1954
    The Seekers

    The Seekers

    The Seekers

    5.71954HD

    a group of British pioneers seek a new life in New Zealand.

    The Seekers
  • 2010
    Boy

    Boy

    Boy

    7.32010HD

    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...

    Boy
  • 2024
    The Mountain

    The Mountain

    The Mountain

    5.252024HD

    Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfill her mission of connecting with her mountain. She hopes...

    The Mountain
  • 1986
    Arriving Tuesday

    Arriving Tuesday

    Arriving Tuesday

    6.51986HD

    Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really...

    Arriving Tuesday
  • 2010
    Tracker

    Tracker

    Tracker

    6.52010HD

    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...

    Tracker
  • 2018
    Broken

    Broken

    Broken

    6.22018HD

    Logan, an ex-gang leader, has left the gang life to raise his daughter Tori. But when Tori is murdered by an opposing gang in town, Logan must choose...

    Broken
  • 2023
    We Are Still Here

    We Are Still Here

    We Are Still Here

    4.32023HD

    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,...

    We Are Still Here
  • 2011
    Waitangi Day: What Really Happened

    Waitangi Day: What Really Happened

    Waitangi Day: What Really Happened

    02011HD

    This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi's signing on 6...

    Waitangi Day: What Really Happened
  • 1996
    Peach

    Peach

    Peach

    6.51996HD

    Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in a relationship going nowhere with Mog, a...

    Peach
  • 2005
    River Queen

    River Queen

    River Queen

    5.6252005HD

    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...

    River Queen
  • 2017
    Waru

    Waru

    Waru

    6.92017HD

    Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...

    Waru
  • 1988
    Mauri

    Mauri

    Mauri

    6.51988HD

    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...

    Mauri
  • 1996
    Twilight of the Gods

    Twilight of the Gods

    Twilight of the Gods

    5.3571996HD

    A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen...

    Twilight of the Gods
  • 1994
    Once Were Warriors

    Once Were Warriors

    Once Were Warriors

    7.41994HD

    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...

    Once Were Warriors