Vanishing without a trace
Uncover hard truths in the underbelly of Asia. Every year, nearly 100,000 Japanese vanish without a trace. They are known as johatsu, or evaporated people. What drives them to engineer their own disappearance?
Category / International Issues
Films and documentaries from outside New Zealand looking at international issues.
Burn With Us
After 6 months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong, students began to fortify a number of the city’s major universities and occupy vital roads nearby. This lead to one of the most violent clashes of the protests…the siege of Poly-U.
Plastic Wars
Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake.
Amazon, Jeff Bezos and collecting data
No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our […]
Climate change – living on the water
Sea levels are rising faster and faster, threatening 700 million people who live on the world’s coasts. Will water become the habitat of the future? Visionary projects for a life with the tides are forging ahead worldwide. Experts forecast that by 2100, sea levels will […]
The power of the pharmaceutical companies
How much is a human life worth? An innovative cancer therapy promises to save lives. But it is extremely expensive. Will the insurance companies pay for it? What is the manufacturer’s return on investment? And do lobbyists drive up prices? In 2018, the Kymriah gene […]
Climate change causes Islands to disappear
With the world heating up, drastic rises in sea level mean whole islands are literally disappearing. It’s an extraordinary sight, and proof positive we must do more, right now.
The Baby Box – South Korea’s Abandoned Babies
Hundreds of babies are abandoned each year in South Korea, prompting a pastor to build a special baby box for them to be left in.
The Mexican Mormon War
The cartels of Juarez, Mexico, are at war with a group of Mormons, some of whom are related to Mitt Romney. We went there to document the conflict, meet Romney’s Mormon family, and find out more about how US policy is impacting the war on […]
Chinese spy spills secrets to expose Communist espionage
A Chinese spy defects to Australia. His shocking revelations are guaranteed to infuriate Beijing. How China conducts questionable activities around the world, including its attempts to infiltrate the Australian government.