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- An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
- A reality show where a group of twenty-four Australians are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The winner takes home $500,000 and the title of Sole Survivor.
- The American Samoa soccer team, deemed "worst in the world", try to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
- A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
- The missing-link is found on a safari in New Guinea. Is it human or animal?
- An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
- Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.
- 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.
- Two brothers; Alama and Popo, arrive for the first time in NZ as Seasonal Workers, making plenty of money to take back home to their family in Samoa. But things take a turn for the worst when Popo steals Alamas' money and runs away. Alama is determined not to return home empty handed, but the only relative that answers his call for help is Bob Titilo; an aspiring private investigator in his 40s. Alama begins to doubt his decision when Bob's unconventional methods take them on a wild goose chase. This New Action Comedy is brought to you by the Makers of hit Comedies; Three Wise Cousins and Hibiscus and Ruthless.
- After making a bet, Steve strands himself on uninhabited island.
- The lifestyle of certain peoples in Africa, Bali, Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands, among other places, is examined with respect to the idea that physical perfection is the chief result of those lifestyles. Next, "Hesperia," a nudist camp in Oregon, is shown. "Mr. and Mrs. Average Housewife and Worker" arrive at the camp to escape the ills of modern civilization. Although they are at first hesitant and ashamed to participate, when they are shown proof of the advantages of the "back-to-nature" lifestyle, the couple joins in. The average life of an American nudist is depicted, including nudists shown at various jobs and pursuits, such as hewing trees, building houses, writing, painting and sculpting.
- A young New Zealand Samoan man called Adam (Neil Amituanai) ventures to his motherland to try and impress his crush Mary (Gloria Ofa Blake), who claims she only likes "real" Pacific Island men.
- Saili, a little person and taro farmer, has his life turned upside-down when he is denied his father's chiefly status and his family plantation is threatened.
- This landmark title from surf movie extraordinaire Bill Ballard is the first of its kind to feature all women surfers. Top names include Lisa Andersen, Rochelle Ballard, Layne Beachley, Serena Brooke, and Megan Abubo. Originally shot in 1998 on the beaches of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, South Africa, and Mexico, along with archive footage. The video presents contemporary women surfers within a historical context, featuring interviews and the music of Crystal Method, Dancehall Crashers, and Morcheeba. Also includes a segment devoted to surfer Rell Sunn and her battle with cancer. Running about an hour, the top-selling Blue Crush started a new genre of commercial surf movies featuring women. Beachley, Ballard, and Abubo appeared as surfers and stunt doubles in the 2002 Universal release of the same name.
- Four brave women set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from America to Australia.
- "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.
- Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, and record the lives of the various natives they encounter there.
- Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
- How far would you go to seal the deal of a lifetime? Travel thousands of miles across the world question? Perhaps, you'd even play rugby with a bunch of giant Samoans? But, could you betray the one girl you could see yourself growing old with? Well, these are exactly the questions that Henry must answer. Henry has never known family or loyalty. Now, he has to convince the Maitai of a village that these are exactly the characteristics he and his company embody. Further, his growing attraction for Tua, the Matai's daughter, is making him question if his career is really what's most important to him. And what about Tua? She has always put her family first. Now, she wants to pursue her career which, for the first time in her life, has placed her at odds with her father. Can she find a way of doing both while deciding how she truly feels about an American man that's caught her eye? Throw in a jealous police officer, a practical joker, and an array of other colourful characters and you have all the elements necessary for a roller-coaster ride of fun, family and faith in The Samoa Deal.
- For the first time in a feature-length documentary, more than five groups of indigenous tribes around the globe act as an example of how we could turn the ongoing events of destroying our planet around.
- A relationship develops between a Samoan and a New Zealander, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage.
- The story of a happy people on an island paradise begins with a description of life and cultural events in the communities. There are glimpses of fishing and local foods being prepared, and the building of a guest house is shown.
- Pepe is a young Samoan. He has two mentors, who represents two opposite paths. One is Toasa, the senior chief of Pepe's village, an elder powerful and wise in the ancient way of his people. He is Pepe's 'conscience'. The other is Tagata, the city-bred dwarf, street smart, bold and cheeky, but condemned by his stature to be an oddity, a flying fox 'with an eagle in the gut'. Tagata is Pepe's 'other' side. Pepe sees his life as a constant set of choices, personified in both Toasa and Tagata; tradition and modernity, rural and urban, communal and individual. Torn between this paradox, he embarks on a life of defiance against his father's unholy trinity of 'God, Money, and Success' only to find that the precepts and responsibilities Toasa had taught him are impossible to practise.
- An ambitious court interpreter risks everything when a wrongfully imprisoned Chief fights to get back to her stranded grandchildren.
- A high spirited, poetic adventure documentary that chronicle's a young person's rites of passage, from novice sailor to expert in three years of life aged in salt, sun and wind. Shot on-board and also on location around the globe, Between Home displays the panache of Nick Jaffe's ocean odyssey from Europe to Australia, and what happens when you dare to follow your dream.
- An exploration of the Samoan fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture.
- The last years in the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, when he left Great Britain for Sydney and west Samoa.
- 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.
- Oscar Kightley and Nathan Rarere reverse the mind blowing ocean voyage of their distant Pacific ancestors. Following a DNA trail, they travel thousands of miles, and meet people their ancestors would have left behind thousands of years earlier, before arriving on the shores of Taiwan and discovering for themselves the origins of their people.
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- An intimate glimpse into the lives of those who formed the first visible group of transgender men in the Pacific Islands - The Rogers of Samoa.
- July 1975. Monica Flaherty, daughter of Robert and Francis Flaherty, cinema verity pioneer Ricky Leacock and Sarah Hudson - Ricky's student at MIT - travel to Samoa, to the island of Savai'i. Monica's aim is to create a perfect sound version of the silent feature film Moana (1926), directed by her parents in her childhood paradise.
- Ocean luminaries Jean-Michel Cousteau, Dr. Sylvia Earle and Nainoa Thompson share two dives on coral reefs in American Samoa, where a National Marine Sanctuary helps protect the ocean for future generations.
- Ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, filmmaker Jim Knowlton and a team of scientists explore tiny Swains Island, located 200 miles north of American Samoa and reachable only by boat. They camp on shore to study this remote island that has recently been named a National Marine Sanctuary. Jean-Michel dives its pristine coral reefs that he says are as healthy as you can find. The scientists search for clues to the island's past use, especially by early Polynesians that settled the island and used it as a stopover to reach distant Islands, and also when it was used as a family-owned copra plantation. They uncover many mysteries long-held on this tiny island in this fascinating Jean-Michel Cousteau adventure.
- A native girl takes care of a blind artist when he is shipwrecked on a south sea island.
- South Pacific, present day. Fishing in a forbidden coral lagoon, a young Samoan father makes a shocking discovery. Its consequences will be determined by the struggle between his conscience and his cowardice.
- An anthropology student travels to the pacific island of Samoa to study its system of communal property rights, which she admires. Barely arrived in the hotel, her clothes get stolen.
- Apple Pie is a feature length artist film shot on super 16mm in New Zealand, Samoa, and at a remote mountaintop astrophysics observatory in the Western US desert. Both an experimental enquiry, and homage to the nature of being; to the world; and to the vital confluence of their intersection.
- A young woman from Watts California determined to discover her roots in American Samoa takes revolutionary measures to free the island from a 300 year old stereotype that may not be true.
- Modern technology has affected most urban people of the world, so they now have more similarities than differences. But geographical environments also continue to influence the way people live, especially in rural and traditional areas. This film uniquelly compares the FOOD in three areas: the tropics of Samoa, the desert of Pakistan, and the mountains of Japan, showing how they are different, and how the people have adapted to their use. Then, in the same way, it compares the CLOTHING in the same three areas; and then the HOUSING.
- A picturesque and authentic tale of South Sea life as lived by the last of the Polynesians and the whites who listlessly go native.
- Six standalone feature documentaries exploring a universal human need as defined by a Kenyan woman farmer: Sustenance, Love, Faith, Culture, Fear and Hope. Shot by emerging filmmakers from seven film schools in eight diverse communities around the world - Samoa, Colombia, Jordan, Harlem, Madrid, Portugal, Calcutta and the Dominican Republic, it is a collective portrait of humanity today.
- A boutique travel show, filmed in Apia, Samoa.
- Skin Stories explores the transformative power of the ancient body art of tattoo as a pathway to explore one's inner self, to honor the past, and preserve a culture for the future.