The Nature Collection
Curated by Peter Hayden 43 items
This collection showcases New Zealand's impressive record in nature and wildlife films. Check out whales, wild deer, and a menagerie of curious birds — limestone caves and Antarctic volcanoes.
NZ Nature on screen
Packed with creatures and landscapes that quite simply boggle the mind, the Nature Collection showcases New Zealand's impressive menagerie of nature and wildlife films. Many of the titles were made by powerhouse company NHNZ, which began around 1977 as the Natural History Unit, a small, southern outpost of state television. In this backgrounder, Peter Hayden — who had a hand in more than a few of these classic films — guides viewers through just what the Nature Collection has to offer.
Profiles
Television
Collection Gallery
A shot from Seven Black Robins.
Kindly provided by Natural History New Zealand.
A shot from Seven Black Robins.
Kindly provided by Natural History New Zealand.
A shot from documentary Seven Black Robins. An NZ Wildlife Service ranger climbs up the 200-metre cliffs on Little Mangere Island. Mangere Island is in the background.
Kindly supplied by Natural History New Zealand
Peter Hayden in Journeys Across Lattitude 45 South.
Kindly supplied by NHNZ.
Peter Hayden in Journeys Across Lattitude 45 South.
Kindly supplied by NHNZ.
Peter Hayden in Journeys Across Lattitude 45 South.
Kindly supplied by NHNZ.
A Weddell seal.
© NHNZ Photo: Paul Donovan.
Andrew Penniket, Ross Sea, Antarctica.
© NHNZ.
Southern right whale and diver (Peter Thompson).
© NHNZ Photo: J Ackley.
Southern right whale.
© NHNZ Photo: J Ackley.
Diver and black coral in Fiordland, New Zealand.
© NHNZ. Photo: A Penniket.
An adult emperor penguin with chick, from 1992 documentary Emperors of Antartica.
© NHNZ Photo by Max Quinn.
Emperor chicks, from 1992 documentary Emperors of Antartica.
© NHNZ Photo: by Max Quinn.
Crystaline stalagmites in St. Benedict's caverns, New Zealand.
© NHNZ Photo: T Worthy.
Abseiling down Harwood's Hole in the South Island of New Zealand.
© NHNZ Photo: T Worthy.
Wasps in a nest
© NHNZ Photo: A Jamieson
Beech forest vista.
© NHNZ Photo: A Jamieson.
A Black Stilt
© NHNZ Photo: Rod Morris
Black Stilt.
© NHNZ Photo: Rod Morris.
Special thanks to:
NZ On Screen would like to thank Peter Hayden for all his help with this collection. We also wish to acknowledge NHNZ for their generous collaboration.