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10 Best Movies Like Waitangi Day: What Really Happened

If you loved Waitangi Day: What Really Happened, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Convert

The Convert

2024★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpos...

#2
Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors

1994★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contempora...

#3
The Piano

The Piano

1993★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her cont...

#4
Whale Rider

Whale Rider

2003★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Māori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize....

#5
Tracker

Tracker

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt in New Zealand for Maori seaman Kereama (Morrison), who is accused of murdering a Brit...

#6
Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui

1994★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waitangi Day: What Really Happened for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for win...

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