Pacific Islands (including Australia) Filmography
updated (10/00)

Advertising missionaries [videorecording] / produced by Aspire Films and Ellipse Programme ; Australian French co-production with ABC Australia, France 3, RTSR (Télévision Suisse Romande) ; in association with The Australian Film Finance Corporation and The Centre National de la Cinematographie. New York . First Run/Icarus Films; c1996. 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A look at "walkabout" advertising. Capitalizing on a growing cash economy in New Guinea, a traveling theater troupe (missionaries of life-style and new products) use a portable stage to spread the gospel of consumerism to isolated areas which cannot be reached by other means. VHS 4580

Asia today. Malaysia/Singapore [videorecording] / produced in association with Adler Media. Falls Church, VA : Landmark Media, c1998. 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. One of the five programs in the series, Asia today, which explores the rapid development taking place across Asia. A general introduction of Malaysia and Singapore. Home of 18 million people, mostly Muslims, Malaysia is still about 60% jungle. The oral history traditions of its past are recalled in shadow puppet shows which antedate its colonization by Portugal, Holland, France, and Britain. Today Malaysia is an independent country, an unusual constitutional monarchy, with 9 royal families from which a different reigning sultan is selected every 5 years, and a democratic parliament. Singapore is an area of contradictions, an Asian melting pot that has pursued relentless Western style development. The "Lion City" has become an economic tiger, perhaps the busiest port in the world and second only to Japan as the richest country in Asia. VHS 5595

Asia today [videorecording] / Landmark Media. Falls Church, Va. c1998. 5 videocassettes (250 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A series of five programs which explores the rapid development taking place across Asia. The series explores the changing culture and emerging economies of five regions, along with the problems that foreign investment, industrialization, and international tourism are bringing. Also shows how social change is taking place throughout the region by contrasting traditional and modern practices in small villages and large cities. VHS 5591-5595

Black harvest [videorecording] / Arundel Productions ; produced and directed by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly. Santa Monica, CA . c1992. 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Features a joint business venture between Joe Leahy, a wealthy mixed-race coffee plantation owner, and the Ganiga, an aboriginal tribe in Papua New Guinea. When world coffee prices collapse the workers' wages are drastically reduced and this leads to tribal warfare. VHS 2401

Blowpipes and bulldozers [videorecording] : the story of the Penan tribe and Bruno Manser / Gaia Films ; produced with the assistance of The National Geographic Society, Channel 4, UK, the Australian Film Commission, SRG Television, Switzerland, Sveriges Television, Sweden. Oley, Pa. c1988. 1 videocassette (ca. 60.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Australian documentary that looks at the Penan, a unique tribe of rainforest nomads living in Sarawak, Borneo, whose way of life is being destroyed by logging. Bruno Manser, a Swiss national, lives with the Penan and works to organize their resistance to the loggers and to publicize their plight to the outside world. Manser's work has brought him into conflict with the Malaysian government. VHS 4911

Bontoc eulogy [videorecording] / a film by Marlon Fuentes. New York, NY . 1995. 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. A personal and poignant docudrama that examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's fair. The film focuses on the film maker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives displayed as anthropological "specimens" in the Philippine village exhibit. A unique fusion of rare archival images, verite, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, the film is an innovative investigation of history, memory and the spectacle of the "other" in the turn-of-the-century America. VHS 5585

Cane toads [videorecording] / directed and written by Mark Lewis. New York . 1987. 1 videocassette (46 min) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Documents the history of the Cane Toad in Australia, showing how it has become part of local culture and popular mythology. Despite its rapid spread throughout Queensland and neighboring provinces and the danger it poses to pets and small children, many regard it as cute or harmless.. VHS 4096

"Cannibal tours" [videorecording] / a film by Dennis O'Rourke. Los Angeles, Calif. 1987. 1 videocassette (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Tourists travel on a cruise ship to visit the farthest reaches of Papua New Guinea. Australian Dennis O'Rourke takes an ironic look (which neither condones nor condemns the tourists or the Papua New Guineans) at tourist/native interaction and explores whether it is the indigenous tribespeople or the white visitors who are the cultural oddity. Both the tourists and the tribespeople comment on each other, highlighting both culture clash and the ways in which the two groups are alike, in this unusual documentary that explores the differences and the surprising similarities that emerge when Western and New Guinean people meet within the context of organized "travel adventure tours." VHS 4546

Caught in the crossfire [videorecording] / an Independent Production ; Atu Emberson-Bain in association with Fiji TV with TVE. Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c1998. A question of rights. 1 videocassette (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. This film is part of the series "A Question of Rights" that explores what governments, communities, NCOs and individuals are doing to ensure that women's reproductive rights are recognized in Ethiopia, Latvia, Jamaica and Fiji. This segment looks at Fiji which, since the armed coup in 1987, has become a cauldron of ethnic persecution and human rights abuses. Male authority in Pacific culture is so deeply entrenched that women have no power to say "no" to sexual exploitation. Prostitution is a taboo subject in Fiji and is illegal, but it is the women and not the men who get prosecuted. VHS 5512

Dead birds [videorecording] / Peabody Museum. Carlsbad, Calif. 1983. 3 videocassettes (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. This film chronicles the two seasons the Harvard-Peabody New Guinea Expedition spent with the Dugum Dani (Dani) in the Kurelu area of the Baliem Valley, Dutch New Guinea (now Irian Jaya, Indonesia). Its purpose was to record the Kurelu wars, rituals, and daily life, and show a people trapped in an avenge-reprisal system. The film portrays the stories of Weaklekek, a warrior, and Tukum, a tender of pigs, their enemies and their friends. Battles, mourning ceremonies and victory celebrations are depicted. Traditional dwellings, dress and battle regalia are also shown. VHS 2104

Dreaming Filipinos [videorecording] / Manny Reyes Productions. [Philippines] . CA : distributed by NAATA [National Asian American Telecommunications Association], 1990. 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. "A comedy satire which addresses the issue of what it means to be Filipino and looks into the preoccupation with being American"--Container case. VHS 1795

Dreamings [videorecording] : the art of aboriginal Australia / Film Australia. Art of aboriginal Australia. New York, N.Y. c1988. 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Documentary look at the sacred, stylized art of Aborigines both present and past. Explores the meaning behind works of immense beauty, ranging from acrylic dot paintings of the Central Desert to cross hatched bark paintings and burial poles from Northern Australia. Includes interviews with various artists including Michael Nelson Jakamarra about their association with the land and imagery which is a result of their belief system and spiritual connections to the land, the clan, to animals and plants. VHS 4805

First contact [videorecording] / produced and directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson in association with Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. Watertown, Mass. c1984. 1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. VHS 2102

The Fringe dwellers [videorecording] / Fringe Dweller Productions Pty. [S.l.] . c1987. 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. An Australian Aborigine girl dreams of big city life and a change from her family's complacency. Trilby Comeaway shares the dreams of most teenage girls - travel, romance, high living. Trilby's people, the Australian Aborigines, are The Fringe Dwellers - people whose tribal roots are disintegrating, while at the same time white society refuses them welcome. This film explores a clash of cultures and generations, as Trilby - headstrong, passionate, even reckless - propels her family out of its complacent acceptance of the status quo, into the unknown future that lies ahead. VHS 2416

From the barrel of a gun [videorecording] / Pacific Basin Institute ; a co-production of PBI/Jigsaw Productions in association with NHK-Japan, KCTS Seattle, Teleac/Holland, and Antelope Films, Ltd. S. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Project, c1992. The Pacific century ; 3. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. Describes the revolution began by Asia's political leaders following WW II. Shows how the Pacific war, the cultural revolution in China and the Vietnam War stem from the roots of nationalism. The end of colonial dominance and the subsequent rise of nationalism and communism are told through the lives of Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary, and Sukarno, the founding father of Indonesia. VHS 1903

Global tourism [videorecording] / a BBC production for the Open University in association with the Annenberg/CPB Project at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. So. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1996. Human geography, people places and change ; 4. 1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Examines the experiences of tourists who visit Hawaii, Malaysia and Borneo and the tourism industry in each of those locations. VHS 3604

Indonesia, a generation of change [videorecording] / Why Not Productions. Derry, NH . 1989, c1987. 6 videocassette (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + guide (64 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.). This series introduces the viewer to Indonesia and the social and economic problems with which it has struggled since independence. VHS 1238-1243

Indonesia [videorecording] / produced by Maryland Public Television, NHK (Japan), Film Australia and InCA (UK). New York : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., c1992. Mini dragons II ; 1. 1 videocassette (60 min) sd., col.; 1/2 in. Although Indonesia has the world's fourth largest population, it has achieved economic success by developing science and technology as well as by using its ready supply of cheap labor. However, the disparity in income between the richest three percent of the population, primarily ethnic Chinese, and the Muslim Pribumis who comprise the labor pool may produce ethnic conflict. VHS 2016

Joe Leahy's neighbors [videorecording]. [Australia : R. Anderson and B. Connolly ; Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources], 1988. 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Concerns Australian prospector and explorer Leahy's mixed-race son Joe as it looks at a situation which mirrors the questions about Papua New Guinea's future and the choices its people face.. Never recognized by his father, Joe has pursued a course of Western life and has risen to affluence. But he lives amongst the Ganiga tribe, who envy his success and question the means by which he got his land. In a volatile situation Joe tries to keep the lid on matters, and uses his freedom from tribal obligations to further his financial success. VHS 2274

Kawelka [videorecording] : Ongka's big moka / Granada Television International. [Chicago, Ill.?] : Shenachie Entertainment Corp., c1991. Disappearing world. 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. Explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes, the larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares for the giving of his Moka. VHS 3506

The Kimberley mob [videorecording] / produced in association with Channel Four Television and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; made with the participation of Australian Film Finance Corporation Pty. Limited. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1991. Indigenous peoples standing their ground. 1 videocassette (ca. 53 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. Discusses how the aboriginal people of northern Australia are reclaiming uneconomic cattle stations where they used to work. Focuses on the Mount Anderson Cattle Station, which is being run by John Watson and members of his tribal group, the Kimberley Mob.). VHS 3094

Legacy of a Javanese princess [videorecording] / Why Not Productions. Derry, NH : Chip Taylor Communications, c1987. Indonesia: a generation of change ; program 6. 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Almost a century ago, Raden Kartini, a Javanese princess became the first woman to challenge the inequities of Indonesian society: however, Indonesian women continue to struggle within a society that compels them to derive their status from their role in the family and their desire and/or need to work. This program shows that life for today's Indonesian woman is a balancing act of wife, mother and rice-field worker; also, a fascinating variety of women offer their insights on how the next generation of women will fare. VHS 1242

Malaysia [videorecording] / produced by Maryland Public Television, NHK (Japan), Film Australia and InCA (UK). New York : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., c1992. Mini dragons II ; 2. 1 videocassette (60 min) sd., col.; 1/2 in. Shows Malaysia's attempt to be fully developed by the year 2020 by developing its economy faster than any nation ever. The risk is a division between the wealthy ethnic Chinese and the native Malays. Individual examples include a rubber planter who is losing his workforce to city jobs and a woman who runs a counseling center for rural women undergoing culture shock in their new role as workers in high-tech factories.. VHS 2017

Margaret Mead and Samoa [videorecording] / produced by Cinetel Productions Ltd., Sydney, in association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Discovery Channel. New York . c1988. 1 videocassette (51 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. Presents new evidence in the controversy generated among anthropologists by Derek Freeman's refutation of Margaret Mead's famous work "Coming of age in Samoa" in which she wrote of a Polynesian culture that was free of the stresses of modern society. Freeman, who found Mead's Samoa largely make-believe and devalued her research, appeared not only to attack a revered institution, but to also challenge the entrenched liberal-political position of anthropology in the "nature versus nurture" dialogue. Includes interviews with Mead's friends, peers, including Freeman, Mead's daughter and native Samoans. VHS 516

Mini Dragons II [videorecording] / produced by Maryland Public Television, NHK (Japan), Film Australia and InCA (UK). New York : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., c1992. 3 videocassettes (180 min) sd., col.; 1/2 in. Profiles newcomers to the global economic scene that are rich in natural resources and developing at amazing speed. The series looks at their economic growth, and the social and cultural forces that drive them, by telling the personal stories of men and women within each distinctive country. VHS 2016-2018

Modern heroes, modern slaves [videorecording] / produced by Productions Multi-Monde in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. New York, NY . c1997. 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Shows the human and sometimes tragic side of the overseas contract worker from the Philippines, where each day, thousands of women leave to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. Most of the money that they earn is sent home to their families - a revenue source so important to the national economy that the Philippine government calls these workers "modern day heroes." Looks at such problems as: failed marriages, family break ups and exploitation and abuse at the hands of unscrupulous employers. VHS 5547

The Pacific century [videorecording] / Pacific Basin Institute ; a co-production of PBI/Jigsaw Productions in association with NHK-Japan, KCTS Seattle, Teleac/Holland, and Antelope Films, Ltd. S. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Project, c1992. The Pacific century ; 10. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. Confronts the economic, political, and cultural challenges that must be faced to secure America's future as a global player in the Pacific Basin region. VHS 1910

The Pacific century [videorecording] / Pacific Basin Institute ; a co-production of PBI/Jigsaw Productions in association with NHK-Japan, KCTS Seattle, Teleac/Holland, and Antelope Films, Ltd. S. Burlington, VT . c1992. 10 videocassettes (600 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. Surveys the past 150 years of economic and political development in the Pacific Basin. Studies the interconnections between Pacific nations and between those nations and the United States - within a geographical, cultural, and historical framework. VHS 1901-1910

Papua New Guinea : anthropology on trial [videorecording] / WGBH. [New York, NY] . 1983. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropology. However, some of the residents have begun to object, stating that anthropologists are sometimes misinformed or biased. Program visits Papua New Guinea, which was originally studied by Margaret Mead, and explores the people's reactions to the anthropologist's conclusions about their culture. VHS 5635

Perfumed nightmare [videorecording] = Mababangong bangungot / Kidlat-Kulog Produktions. El Cerrito, Calif. : Flower Films, [1986?]. 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A semi-autobiographical fable about a Filipino named Kidlat Tahimik and his awakening to, and reaction against American cultural colonialism. VHS 691

Rebels of the forgotten world [videorecording] / a von Planta Ltd. production for Channel Four. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1991. Indigenous peoples standing their ground. 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. The forceful and forcible efforts of the Indonesian government to resettle and westernize its tribal people have met with determined resistance from the dispossessed native population, armed only with bows and arrows. VHS 3092

Road to the Stamping Ground [videorecording] / co-produced by Polygon Pictures [and] RM Arts, with NOS-TV Holland. [Chicago, IL] . c1984. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. Kylian's ballet "Stamping Ground" was inspired by the Australian aborigine dance ceremony he witnessed in 1980. This film includes footage from the Australian ceremonies, intercut with the choreographer and his own dancers working in the Hague. Includes complete performances of the finished ballet "Stamping Ground," and of a stamping dance performed by Australian tribesmen. VHS 485

Sentimental imperalists [videorecording] / Pacific Basin Institute ; a co-production of PBI/Jigsaw Productions in association with NHK-Japan, KCTS Seattle, Teleac/Holland, and Antelope Films, Ltd. S. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Project, c1992. The Pacific century ; 9. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. Examines the stereotypic attitudes of Westerners towards Asia from 1776 to the present. Presents specific case studies of the U.S. relationships with China and the Philippines. VHS 1909

Singapore [videorecording] : the price of prosperity / a BBC Production.. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1997. Business matters. 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Lee Kwan Yew, the senior minister in Singapore's government, is featured in this program that shows how Singapore has become a major international finance center. Program looks at the price of that achievement, and the draconian restrictions on personal liberty that Yew claims were necessary to bring it all about. VHS 5127

Southeast Asia, between the giants [videorecording] / a production of Cambridge Studios in collaboration with ABC-TV Open Learning, Australia...[et al.] Santa Barbara, CA : Annenberg/CPB Project, 1995. The power of place: world regional geography ; pt. 25-26. 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Laos, isolated heart, examines the prospects for development in isolated Laos particularly through the "Friendship Bridge". Vietnam, fertile dreams, looks at rice production in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Indonesia, tourist invasion, explores the growing importance of tourism in Indonesia. Multi-cultural Malaysia analyzes Malaysia's different ethnic groups and efforts for mutual acceptance. VHS 3775-3776

Sugar slaves [videorecording] / produced by Film Australia. Lindfield, NSW, Australia . c1995. 1 videocassette (55 min) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Descendants of Melanesians who were kidnapped or convinced to emigrate to Australia to work on sugar plantations return to their ancestral homelands to trace their roots. The film explores the exploitation of Melanesian workers, subsequent deportation of many of them and discrimination against the descendants of those who stayed in Australia. VHS 4122

Taking pictures [videorecording] / Australian Film Finance Corporation presents a Vingan Pty Limited production ; produced in association with SBS Independent ; written, produced and directed by Les McLaren and Annie Stiven. New York, N.Y. 1996. 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd. col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. Australian documentary filmmakers explore the issues and pitfalls of filming across cultural boundaries through interviews and samples of their films of Papua New Guinea including Trobriand Cricket, First Contact, The Shark Callers of Kontu, Joe Leah's Neighbors, Black Harvest, Cannibal Tours, and others. It also covers the work of indigenous Papua New Guinea filmmakers and their own experience making sense of film and culture. VHS 4582

Tanah Air [videorecording] : our land, our water / Why Not Production. Derry, NH : Chip Taylor Communications, c1987. Indonesia: a generation of change ; program 3. 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Tanah (Land) and Air (Water) together mean Country. This program looks at Indonesia's environmental problems and the attempts by both government and community groups to solve them. Two major causes of the problem are economic development and population distribution. VHS 1240

The Three worlds of Bali [videorecording] / co-production of Public Broadcasting Associates, Inc. and the University of Southern California. [Boston?] : Public Broadcasting Associates, 1981. Odyssey series. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Reflects anthropologist Stephen Lansing's theme of the three Balinese traditions: time and place, religion, and group participation, the organizing principle of all three being art. Lansing guides the viewer on an exploration of the Indonesian island of Bali, which is coming to terms with the technological West. The Balinese make artistic offerings of music, dance, poetry, and even food in order to maintain the delicate balance between the world they live in, the world of the gods, and the world of the demons. The Balinese have retained what was important to them, which is a blend of animism, Hinduism, and Buddhism into a single continuous tradition. VHS 4950

To dream the possible dream [videorecording] / Why Not Productions. Derry, NH : Chip Taylor Communications, c1987. Indonesia: a generation of change ; program 4. 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Uses the interwoven designs in traditional batik cloth to symbolize the dreams and sometimes opposing aspirations of the Indonesian people. Although 80% of the Indonesian people are engaged in agriculture and agriculture-based industries, many young people are moving to the cities to work in industry. But advancing manufacturing technology is exacerbating an already serious unemployment problem. How can Indonesia educate enough skilled workers and develop economically to realize the dreams of its 165 million people. VHS 1241

Trading places [videorecording] : Indonesia and the West / Why Not Productions. Derry, NH : Chip Taylor Communications, c1987. Indonesia: a generation of change ; program 5. 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Following independence, Indonesia became a leader among the nonaligned Third World nations and regarded even foreign aid as a form of colonialism. Since 1966 Indonesia has welcomed foreign investment and trade with industrialized countries but has maintained ownership and control of its natural resources. When faced with protectionism, Indonesia has erected its own trade barriers. VHS 1243

Trobriand cricket [videorecording] : an ingenious response to colonialism / film-maker, Gary Kildea ; director, Jerry W. Leach ; produced by Office of Information, Government of Papua New Guinea. Berkeley, CA : University of Calif. Extension Media Center, [1975?]. 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide. Shows how the Trobriand Islanders have transformed he British game of cricket over the last seventy years into a unique Trobriand sport and a colorful ritual expressing their own cultural values. VHS 586

The United States and the Philippines : in our image. Part 3, People power [videorecording] / produced by Andrew Pearson, Eric Neudel ; written by Stanley Karnow, Andrew Pearson ; The Philippine Project in assoc. with KCET/Los Angeles. Alexandria, Va. 1989. 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Three part series documents the Philippines sometimes turbulent history from U.S. colonial period to recent reforms. This segment looks at Corazon Aquino's rise to power in the Philippines and the return to popular rule following the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. VHS 1305

Walkabout [videorecording] / [presented by] 20th Century-Fox ; Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff Films (PTY) Ltd. [United States] . 1997. 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Film looks at the tensions between civilization and nature. Stranded in the Australian desert after their father commits suicide, a teenage girl and her small brother from the city (Sydney) are taken in hand by an Aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout" -- a tribal initiation into manhood lasting several months during which he must survive off the land. VHS 5252

War stories [videorecording] / [presented by] Gaylene Preston Productions in association with the New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand On Air, TV3 Network. New York, N.Y. c1995. 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. Presents an overview of those women who were left behind on the New Zealand homefront during World War II. Seven women of different classes, races and cultural backgrounds speak about the impact of WWII on their lives. They tell stories of sexual passion, illicit love, heroic adventure and painful death. VHS 6167