Barry Barclay

6.8 MovieSet in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngāti is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of...

Ngāti

1987

8.0 MovieConversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring their inner worlds, their...

Ashes

1975

9.0 MovieActor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of pioneer life mesh...

Autumn Fires

1977

7.0 MovieThis remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who vowed never to...

The Feathers of Peace

2000

9.0 MovieThe traditional materials and methods used in Māori weaving. Rangimarie Hetet and her daughter, Rangituatahi Te Kanawa, of Ngāti Maniapoto, talk to Tilly Reedy and...

My Art of Maori Weaving

MovieBarry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very influential, Indigenous...

Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

2009

MovieDocumentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on New Zealand cinema.

Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema

2016

MovieA documentary about the threat posed to New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishing and development.

The Kaipara Affair

2005

MovieIn a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known as the haka, after evading enemy capture by hiding in a kumara pit.

Ka Mate! Ka Mate!

1987