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Making New Zealand
Season 1 , Episode 1Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about everyday things. Where would we be without hydro-schemes to provide our power, roads, railway lines and bridges to move people and goods around the country? Making New Zealand is a four-part documentary series that shares the stories of local men and women who envisaged and created our major infrastructure projects and communication networks. Each episode acknowledges and celebrates those workers who took on major challenges to build these vital elements of modern life. -
Making New Zealand
Season 1 , Episode 2Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about everyday things. Where would we be without hydro-schemes to provide our power, roads, railway lines and bridges to move people and goods around the country? Making New Zealand is a four-part documentary series that shares the stories of local men and women who envisaged and created our major infrastructure projects and communication networks. Each episode acknowledges and celebrates those workers who took on major challenges to build these vital elements of modern life. -
Making New Zealand
Season 1 , Episode 3Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about everyday things. Where would we be without hydro-schemes to provide our power, roads, railway lines and bridges to move people and goods around the country? Making New Zealand is a four-part documentary series that shares the stories of local men and women who envisaged and created our major infrastructure projects and communication networks. Each episode acknowledges and celebrates those workers who took on major challenges to build these vital elements of modern life. -
Making New Zealand
Season 1 , Episode 4Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about everyday things. Where would we be without hydro-schemes to provide our power, roads, railway lines and bridges to move people and goods around the country? Making New Zealand is a four-part documentary series that shares the stories of local men and women who envisaged and created our major infrastructure projects and communication networks. Each episode acknowledges and celebrates those workers who took on major challenges to build these vital elements of modern life. -
Making New Zealand Construction
Season 2 , Episode 1A profile of some of New Zealand’s pioneering engineering, building and architectural luminaries, and some of our most iconic buildings such as The Dunedin Railway Station, Auckland’s Civic Theatre and The Christchurch Town Hall. -
Making New Zealand Aviation
Season 2 , Episode 2This is the story of how Kiwis learned to spread their wings and take flight. Through trial and error, a civil aviation industry was born that opened up a whole new world for New Zealanders. -
Making New Zealand Forestry
Season 2 , Episode 3With wealth blanketing the land, forestry became one of New Zealand's earliest industries. Discover our forestry history, and how the beauty of our native forests was almost realised too late. -
Making New Zealand Mining
Season 2 , Episode 4Unearth how mining the country's riches played a fundamental role in the making of New Zealand, as landscapes were altered and whole towns were made and lost, then made again. -
Making New Zealand Tourism
Season 3 , Episode 1Early entrepreneurs understood the appeal of New Zealand's natural beauty, giving rise to the world's first Tourism Department. Witness how New Zealand became the tourism mecca it is today.
