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Weekly Review No. 97 - Coal from Westland

Short Film (Full Length) – 1943

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Weekly Review

The National Film Unit was set up in 1941 to publicise...

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Labour Day Collection

Curated to mark Labour Day, this collection features...

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Pictorial Parade No. 195 - After Ninety Years

Classic NFU film on Denniston

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Coal Valley

More coal mining on the coast

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Journeys in National Parks: Westland / Aoraki

The West Coast features in this episode

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American Pie - 2, Episode Two

Coal mining in the United States

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Hunger for the Wild - Series One, Episode Three (Mokihinui River whitebait)

Also features Denniston

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Intrepid Journeys - Bolivia (Peta Mathias)

Also features a mining town

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Dustie

More dirty work

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Weekly Review No. 413 - From Potter's Wheel to Mass Production

Also produced by Stanhope Andrews

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Weekly Review No. 374 - The Coaster

Another Weekly Review film

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Weekly Review No. 355 - Railway Worker

Another Weekly Review film

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Maui One - Oil from the Sea

A doco on the discovery of the Maui gas field

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Weekly Review No. 280 - Patterns in Flax

Another film from the Weekly Review

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Guardians of the Light

Another extreme job

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Country Lads

Another film in the Weekly Review series

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Weekly Review No. 347

A post-war Weekly Review

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The Women of Pike River

A mining disaster on the West Coast

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Descent from Disaster - Strongman Mine Disaster

A West Coast mining disaster

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Sunday - Daniel Rocks

Interview with one of the Pike River survivors

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Then Again - Strongman Mine

More mining in Rūnanga

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Hidden Places: Ōkārito

Forestry was another big earner for Westland

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Epitaph - Fire at the Coal Face

A mining disaster on the West Coast

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Pike River

A docudrama about a mining disaster on the West Coast

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Making New Zealand - Mining

Documentary on New Zealand's mining history