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Four-part series Revolution examined sweeping changes in New Zealand society that began in the 1980s. This third episode looks at the lurch of the Kiwi stock market from boom to bust in 1987, and the growing philosophical divide between “head boys” PM David Lange and finance minister Roger 'Rogernomics' Douglas. Within two months of the October 1987 stock market crash, $21 billion was lost from the value of NZ shares. Lange and Douglas give accounts of how their differing views on steering the NZ economy eventually resulted in both their resignations.
It is now 13 years since Revolution was made for Television New Zealand and there has been no equivalent documentary of recent political history on our screens since as far as I can ascertain. The ...
[From the introduction to the book accompanying the TV series, published by Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996]
Revolution is a journalist's assembly of observations about the transformation of New ...
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Television, 1987 (Full Length Episode)
Pre-crash profile of forex trader John Key
Television, 1988 (Excerpts)
A series satirising NZ politics in the 1980s via puppet caricature
Short Film, 1987 (Full Length)
A classic short film directed by Revolution editor Bill Toepfer
Television, 1987 (Full Length Episode)
This episode features a union dispute
Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The first episode in the Revolution series
Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The second episode in the Revolution series
Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
The final episode in the Revolution series
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