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As a showcase history of Christchurch onscreen this...
This legacy collection draws on archive footage, some...
A famous moment from the Games
Coach Arthur Lydiard, who comments on a race here,...
Also features camera by Bayly Watson
Directed by Sam Pillsbury
A fantasy children’s serial based around the 1974...
Drama about a teenager hoping to get into the Olympics
Shows preparations for 1950 Empire Games
Directed by Paul Maunder
More slow motion sports coverage, directed by Arthur Everard
Drama featuring an Olympic swimmer
More 70s sport
More 70s sport
More running men and women
NZ also hosted the 1950 British Empire Games
History of NZ at the Commonwealth Games
Light entertainment from 1974
Documentary about the Christchurch earthquakes
Behind the architecture of QEII Park stadium and pool
Meanwhile in 1974
A tribute to runner John Walker
Profile of runner John Walker
The promo for the 1990 Auckland Games
A 1968 documentary on NZ Olympic champs
1996 Paralympics in Atlanta
Paul Holmes visits the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta
The short doco that screened with Games 74 in NZ theatres
A doco looking back at the 1974 Games from 1990
Also directed by John King
1970 NFU film promoting the Games
This Westside episode is set in 1974
Steve Allen's classic Games song performed in 1985
Musical anthem for the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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