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- David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth. From giving an overview of the challenges facing life to hunting the deep sea and various major evolutionary groups of creatures.
- When Maka and Veni fail in getting tickets for the most important game of their lives, they decide to form a traditional Tongan marching band, just so they can go to the game. No one in their band of misfits knows anything about marching and they practice using plastic bottles and tin cans for instruments. It is a complete shambles and if they can't get their act together, they will embarrass their entire Tongan community in front of the world. However, what starts out as just a cynical scam to see a rugby game becomes a journey of self-discovery in which Maka and Veni will learn the importance of their Tongan culture.
- The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
- Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the world as they push the limits of their craft.
- A portmanteau feature film by 9 female Pacific filmmakers and filmed on seven Pacific islands. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai.
- Fritz, a young Tongan man grappling with his wrestling superstar father Baron To'a's legacy, both metaphorically and literally following in his deceased father's footsteps by fighting for the return of his dad's stolen championship belt.
- The Tongan Ninja is sent by his master to the island of New Zealand to help a floundering Chinese restaurant, but the mysterious Mister Big sends numerous villains to prevent the eatery's success.
- 12 Strangers are marooned on a deserted island in Fiji to solve clues and puzzles to win $25,000. Each week two people are eliminated.
- "In Football We Trust" captures a snapshot in time amid the rise of the Pacific Islander presence in the NFL. Presenting a new take on the American immigrant story, this feature length documentary transports viewers deep inside the tightly-knit Polynesian community in Salt Lake City, Utah. With unprecedented access and shot over a four-year time period, the film intimately portrays four young Polynesian men striving to overcome gang violence and near poverty through American football. Viewed as the "salvation" for their families, these young players reveal the culture clash they experience as they transform out of their adolescence and into the high stakes world of collegiate recruiting and rigors of societal expectations.
- Presented by former Samoa rugby player Dan Leo, who sacrificed his own career to confront corruption in his national union, Oceans Apart looks at the bond between the Pacific and modern Rugby and reveals the darker side of the sport.
- Pacific Warriors is a unique, humorous and personal insight into two very contrasting worlds, all united in their passion for one sport.
- Kiwi adventurer Ellis Emmett embarks on an incredible journey across the waves of the South Pacific. He must harness the power of the wind to explore some of the most remote islands and atolls on the planet; places only accessible by sailboat. Greeted by the isolated people who call these shores home, Ellis immerses himself in the fascinating, yet threatened cultures of Tonga, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, the Marshall Islands, and Kiribati.
- Xavier Rosset leaves Switzerland for a Tongan island. His objective is to live - or to be more precise - to survive - there for eight months. Day in, day out he confides to his camera.
- Instructed to set out on a journey by his village chief, Flying Fox heads South to learn about his strengths as a man. During his journey he encounters two warring villages and attempts to mediate their differences. Flying Fox applies the lessons he learned on his journey when he returns to his home village to find trouble.
- This is a documentary which both shows the ancient traditional art form of healing but tries to capture the essence of being a traditional healer in an ever changing environment. Traditional healers are shown collecting, preparing and administering herbal remedies that they have passed down from generation to generation. Healers discuss where, why and how they gained their knowledge and why they choose to carry on age old customs and practices despite he fact that Tonga is becoming a nation increasingly dependent on western medicine. Tonga's traditional healers are adapting to niches such as prenatal care and physical therapy. Interspersed throughout the film are beautiful scenes of water, agriculture, rainforest and people which comprise current island life in the Kingdom of Tonga.
- Everyone dreams of the South Seas. Is it a dream or is it real? Well surprisingly its as real as ever. In every way. A step back in time and a step forward in adventure.
- The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.
- TV Series
- Being Bruno Banani tells the unique story of the first and only Tongan luger who managed to qualify in an amazingly short amount of time for the Sochi 2014: XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014). Through his name, he also acted as the first 'living brand', using a completely new and disputed way to get around the strict IOC's advertising regulations.
- Ancient philosophy, opera and Tongan culture come together in this intimate portrait of a teacher, his school and his people as they navigate a sea of repression and doubt in a small but troubled Pacific island kingdom.
- Reality Tv series in which 2 German families travel to Tonga and have to survive on food they can catch or harvest themselves.
- A documentary portrait of a Tongan whale-watching guide called George, and of the humpback whales that spend their summers in the warm waters around the islands of Vava'u. We wanted to make a film that reflects on the content tranquility that a connection with the ocean and some of it's largest inhabitants can bring. The environment and it's protection shouldn't be political.
- 'Stronger Together: 50 years of Defence Cooperation' is a documentary that highlights important projects from Australia's Defence Cooperation Program (DCP) with our Pacific partners.
- There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On a remote island in the Kingdom of Tonga, he chooses to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. When a visit to the populated island of Vava'u ends in disaster, Wolski only narrowly manages to keep the boy from being sent to prison. The deal: from now on, Marcel is not allowed to leave the uninhabited island of Kenutu at all.
- The story of a young Polynesian boy's journey from Tonga to New Zealand and his subsequent discovery and ascent into the dance halls of the 1940s where he added a distinctly Polynesian style to popular dance music. Sevesi recalls a time when dance halls swayed to the sounds of steel guitars, as it conjured up romantic dreams of moonlit nights and warm sea breezes.
- Produced by Television Tonga, Juice Music is a weekly hour-long program for young people, featuring the latest music videos from the USA & the UK, segments/interviews relating to youth issues, as well as contests where home viewers compete for prizes.
- Ama'ara - the Song of the Whales is a documentary fairy tale for troubled times.
- Paprika Leaverton, Host and Director of this award-winning film explores the vanishing female art form of Hiko or Juggling, while sharing the unique history of these Polynesian women and their Queen Salote in the Kingdom of Tonga.
- The 1967 coronation ceremony of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga.
- Te Radar lives in the world's biggest Polynesian city - Auckland. But he doesn't know much about his Pacific neighbours. In TV ONE's gorgeous new local series, Radar Across the Pacific, he travels to the islands to find out more.
- Oceans: Nature's Aquarium brings you lush ocean scenery that transforms your widescreen into a natural undersea aquarium.
- Set in the Kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific Islands), this film looks at the influence and encroachment of western culture as shown in the relationship of a young man and his traditional father.
- Three oceans with eight surfers on an odyssey of exotic waves and culture.
- Tapa cloth or ngatu as it is called in Tonga, is cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree. The inner bark is beaten into fine sheets and painted using traditional designs. After centuries of use, ngatu has literally become the fabric of Tongan society. In Tonga and throughout much of Polynesia, bark cloth has deep symbolic and ceremonial use. At birth, babies are swaddled in it. At marriage, newlyweds line their wedding bed, and at death, the departed are buried wrapped in it. This documentary investigates the highly collaborative process of making ngatu and the organizations of women who carry on with the tradition. While the process continues to be passed on from generation to generation, there are signs of change as a cash economy begins to infiltrate Tongan life. Young people show less interest in such labor intensive endeavor in the face of the older generation's belief that this tradition will never die.
- Stories from missions team members and the people they reach.
- This little gem in the Pacific Ocean is the only independent monarchy left in the South Sea Islands. This picture gives us many interesting views of the life here in all its simplicity. The natives are very hospitable; they were warlike at one time, but now follow peaceful pursuits. The old dances, the manners and customs of the people, the way they live and the many interesting sidelights are all shown.
- The humpback whale is an endangered species with 25,000 existing in all the world's oceans.