80 years of the National Film Unit

Learn about the history of the NFU – from its wartime beginnings to the ways it documented life in Aotearoa and shaped our film industry.

Check out our favourite NFU films. Some are available online for the first time.

Find out how footage from the archives has inspired filmmakers and helped researchers understand the history of Aotearoa.

 Discover what goes on in our film preservation lab, and learn about some of our film digitisation projects. 

Hear from directors and film technicians about what it was like to work at the NFU.

A list of the audiovisual material held by Archives New Zealand.