Bogdan Charis Kominowski was born in 1945 inside a Nazi concentration camp near Düsseldorf in Germany. His French father was killed in the war, but…
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1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 8 (New Zealand) Host Stu Dennison hosted live New Zealand children’s show Nice One for three years from…
Told in a bold, unflinching manner, director Lee Tamahori’s award-winning drama grips and fascinates as it lifts the lid on ghetto Maori life in New…
2 0 0 5 – 2 0 1 0 (New Zealand) 107 x 45 minute episodes One of the most successful and longest-running series in New…
The Pleazers were a wild long-haired Australian R&B act, who evolved out of Brisbane’s Johnny & The G Men, then picked up a Kiwi vocal…
New Zealand–based Pop Mechanix formed in Christchurch in 1979 and released their debut single, Now, in 1980. Vocalist Andrew Snoid (born Andrew McLennan) replaced the original…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (New Zealand) 12 x 60 minute episodes Pukemanu was the first drama series made in New…
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes one morning to realise he may be the only person left alive on Earth. Left to wander through a…
Around midnight on 10 July 1985, French secret service agents bombed the Greenpeace environmental patrol ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand’s Auckland harbour, ripping apart the…
Starting out as a fairly accomplished outfit in the style of Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Ray Columbus and The Invaders hit the top of…
1 9 2 1 – 1 9 9 2 New Zealand National Party right-of-centre politician and NZ prime minister from 1975 to 1984. Nicknamed “”Piggy”…
Born in Liverpool, England, Rosalie Edmondson moved to Auckland, New Zealand, with her family at the age of 15. After attending Takapuna Grammar School, she…
1 9 7 2 (New Zealand) 11 x 30 minute episodes The appearance of Ewen Solon, star of Maigret and The Revenue Men and an expatriate…
1 9 9 2 – Current (New Zealand) 7,000+ x 30 minute episodes “You’re not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!” Centred on the Shortland Street Hospital…
This Kiwi film features a reclusive pacifist named Smith (Sam Neill) who is ripped from his hermit’s life on an idyllic Maori island and drawn…
Former racing driver Alan Shaw (Bruno Lawrence) now drives a tow truck and owns and operates the titular auto-wrecking yard in New Zealand. He still…
This New Zealand glam rock band went from relative obscurity as an unknown group (previously a covers band called Stewart and the Belmonts) to overnight…
New Zealand’s most successful music export, Split Enz, began in Auckland in 1972 when Tim Finn and Phil Judd formed an acoustic band called Split…
1 9 8 7 (New Zealand) 8 x 30 minute episodes “Treachery, warfare and murder have stained the history of these emeralds with blood. Even their…
This influential New Zealand pub rock and blues band was formed in Auckland in July 1974 by English-born singer and guitarist Hammond Gamble. Starting out…