The New Zealand Wars
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- Springlands School student
- What was the hardest era in New Zealand history to shoot?
- David Filer
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One of the most difficult episodes to shoot was the one on the wars between Māori and Pākehā in the 1860s and 1870s. It’s still a very controversial period, and it’s still very upsetting to a lot of Māori about what happened in that period. It is a difficult story to tell to be fair to both sides.

