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Made for television, this 13-part National Film Unit series aimed to showcase “people and events that shaped the New Zealand of today”. The Bernard Kearns-presented series is mostly composed of footage taken from NFU stock. Fascinating early film clips are accompanied by interviews with elderly gents and ladies who reminisce about events as they unfold on the screen. This edition focuses on the opening decades of the 20th century; the nostalgia takes a dark turn when bow tie-wearing Kearns discusses World War I and provides alarming statistics of loss of life.
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Television, 1971 (Full Length Episode)
Another instalment of this NFU series
Television, 2006 (Excerpts)
Robyn Malcolm visits the sites of two notorious WWI battles
Television, 2002 (Full Length)
Documentary about WWI veteran Lawrence 'Curly' Blyth
Television, 2000 (Excerpts)
A look at New Zealanders' involvement in war during the twentieth century
Television, 1975 (Full Length)
The Land March of 1975 was a response to the Crown's land policies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Television, 1975 (Full Length)
A made for TV drama about NZ's famous turn of the century aviator
Television, 1977 (Full Length)
Waihi, the site of the famous 1913 waterfront strike, comes in third place in the 1977 final of Top Town
Television, 1993 (Full Length)
Women born during this decade reminisce about their lives
Television, 1973 (Full Length Episode)
New Zealanders at war in Italy, 1943-45
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