1. Langi Ziit (Langi Ziit)
(Langi Ziit)
2. Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story
Documentary about the influential New Zealand indie label Flying Nun Records.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
3. The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
4. Fire And Fury
Who is driving a violent, misinformed New Zealand, and why? Fire and Fury is a Stuff Circuit investigation into disinformation in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
5. Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers' Union
Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber Workers Delegates and their industrial action.
6. Goodbye to All Cats
A documentary exploring the human-cat love story amidst a movement to eradicate cats in New Zealand.
7. Highland Tower (Highland Tower)
In December 1993, a luxury condominium tower block collapse after ground erosion from the neighbouring hillside. About 50 people lost their lives and to this day has become one of the darkest and saddest tragic incidents in Malaysian history. Twenty years later in 2013, a group of documentary filmmakers venture into the remaining two blocks that is left standing to do a ghost hunting expedition. What they discovered is not for the faint-hearted.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Oravská priehrada (Oravská priehrada)
(Oravská priehrada)
9. Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold
Olympic Champion, Kiwi Icon, Tongan Leader, Orphan, Mother...winning was just part of the journey.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. Talking Architecture, City: Hall (말하는 건축 시티:홀)
A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative notions, a design and all got mingled up. Can the project sail, yes?
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. Kinleith '80
Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.
12. Blakey
The life and times of sailor and adventurer Sir Peter Blake, one of New Zealand's favourite sons.
13. Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood (Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood)
(Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood)
14. New Zealand 3D: The Forgotten Paradise
New Zealand is one of the most remote countries in the world. Owing to the great distance from continents and, as a result of intense volcanic activity, unique flora and fauna as well as extraordinary landscapes have developed in this island country. The settlement of humans over the centuries has naturally also had an influence on the landscape. This film is an invitation to travel across the diverse landscapes of New Zealand.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
15. A Long Farewell (집의 시간들)
Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.
16. Parempaan asumiseen (Parempaan asumiseen)
Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
17. Death in Arizona
Death in Arizona is a futuristic documentary of lost love and a tale of a dying civilization. It is an autobiographical portrayal of a man who returns to his lost love’s empty apartment in pursuit of answers. The distant voices of a tribe in Arizona that survived a meteorite strike make their way into the third story apartment of this obscure Bolivian city.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
18. New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
Isolated from the rest of the world since the time of the dinosaurs, New Zealand’s magnificent wildlife has been left to its own devices for 80 million years, with surprising consequences. This series reveals New Zealand’s rich and intriguing wildlife stories, from the bustling communities of penguins hiding away in giant daisy forests to the kakapo – Earth’s only species of flightless nocturnal parrots. New Zealand was also the last place to be discovered and settled by people who brought with them new animals, like merino sheep and new predators like the stoat. Finally the series meets the pioneering conservation heroes who are fighting to save some of its most endangered species.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
19. Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of Eastman Theatre
Take a look behind the curtain to see the vast history and recent renovation of one of Rochester, New York's most famous landmarks. Architects, theater personnel, historians, community leaders, and citizens provide in depth insight from start to finish in one of the most extensive renovations the city has ever seen.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
20. The KFC
Five Kiwis take on a paragliding adventure in Tanzania, with the ultimate aim to fly from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
