Movies and TV
Watch movies and TV shows online, borrow DVDs or read about your favourite films, directors, and actors.
Take your pick from over 10,000 films - action movies, indie documentaries, or binge-worthy dramas. Stream them for free.
Access Video
World-class documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos on every known subject.
Beamafilm
Unlimited access to thousands of great movies, documentaries and series for free with your library card.
Kanopy
On-demand streaming video service with a large collection of award-winning independent, international and classic films, and documentaries.
Just for Kids
Kid-safe streaming video content, including Sesame Street, Arthur, Berenstain Bears, Dr Seuss and more.
Credit-free films on Kanopy
Used up your Kanopy credits for the month? You can still watch more! These titles are credit-free this month.
Best watches of 2024 🎬🍿
Mostly recent with the occasional older title I've only just got around to watching. These are my favourite movies and TV shows of the year.
A look at the extraordinary life of Dame Whina Cooper - her personal struggles and her crusade to stop the loss of Māori land that culminated in the 1975…
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Books on screen
Books adapted into movies and TV shows, and movies and TV shows adapted from books.
Books and magazines
Movies and TV for tamariki
Movies and TV for tamariki
Just for Kids
Thousands of videos & interactive games - Sesame St, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Franklin the Turtle, Berenstain Bears, & Arthur.
Kanopy Kids
Kanopy Kids is a collection of movies and shows for kids.
Watching the finalists: Ray Bradbury Nebula Award
With finalists as different as The Last of Us and Barbie, Fee finds it hard to pick the winner in this year's award.
New Zealand movies and TV
New Zealand movies and television in the catalogue
See also:
- Christchurch movie theatres - heritage images
- New Zealand on Screen - Hundreds of clips from New Zealand films and television available to watch for free. Includes some full length movies and episodes of television series.
- Canterbury Film Society - Non-profit incorporated society that aims to screen interesting films (foreign films in particular).
- New Zealand International Film Festival - New Zealand’s popular Film Festival visits Christchurch in winter.
Featured
Canterbury Stories: Local film
Heritage images of Cantabrians behind and in front of the camera.
Bullet Train
A brightly coloured, violent confection with a somewhat convoluted plot and a cast of quirky assassins on a bullet train to Kyoto. Why are there so many…
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