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A Nuclear Free Pacific (Niuklia Fri Pasifik)
Film (Full Length) – 1988
This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone. Interviews with politicians, activists, radiation victims and American and French admirals are counterpointed. When hopes of a treaty are dashed at a South Pacific Forum meet, it is pointed out that the David Lange-trumpeted independence of NZ's nuclear-free policy is evidently "not for export". Local music scores the doco, including Australia's Midnight Oil, whose lead singer (future MP Peter Garrett) is interviewed.
An eighth of the surface of the globe tied up in a zone of sanity was a marvellous opportunity to declare where we stood ... it was symbolic of a movement of peace and survival.– Author and academic John Hinchcliff
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Pacific Stories Partnership
Acknowledgements
Made in association with Channel 4 (UK), NZFC Short Film Fund and TVNZ.
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