George Henare

Māori history is brought alive in this period action-adventure based on the traditional fighting art of Mau rākau. After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the chieftan's teenage son Hongi (James Rolleston, Boy) must avenge his father's death...

Temuera Morrison (Once Were Warriors) and Lawrence Makoare (The Dead Lands) play brothers with opposing values in this NZ drama.

Washed up on the shores of a South Seas island village when he was a baby, a ridiculed deaf and mute boy befriends a white turtle in this 1985 New Zealand drama.