Movies: Peter Jackson

An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil pl...

Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense project from start to finish. It turns out that this one film may actually be a larger task to compl...

Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history....

The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", during the Council of Elrond scene. His brief appearance spar...

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A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest advent...

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greates...

From the very beginning of the design process on the film trilogy, right up to the summer months prior to the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the look of Gollum was ever-changing and developing. Here then is a brief guide through t...

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Based on the comic book Prisoners of the Sun, where Tintin and Haddock head to South America to find a cure for their friend professor Calculus....

A workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes....

Documentary about the making of the 1996 horror-comedy....

A possessed piñata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror....

A very informative documentary on the making of Peter Jackson's gore classic Bad Taste. Highlights include behind-the-scenes footage, detailed explanations of the special effects, an interview with Peter's mom and dad, and interviews with the cast an...

The Characters of Star Wars is a Video Documentary included in the 2004 DVD release of the Star Wars Original Trilogy. It explained the Mythos of many of the "Star Wars" Characters....

An in-depth look at the genesis, production, and legacy of King Kong, one of the most influential films ever made....

"The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz" - a featurette narrated by Sydney Pollack....

James Nesbitt moved to New Zealand in 2011 when he landed the role of Bofur in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, but he says the country remains largely unknown to him. Travelling more than 1,000 miles from the tip of the North Island down to the South...

This documentary looks at how the strings were pulled on Peter Jackson's low-budget puppet movie Meet the Feebles. An old Wellington railway shed fizzes with energy and imagination as a team peppered with future Oscar-winners crafts the gleefully sub...

River runs the one-man operation of Tranquility Records, recording animal sounds near his house and making music from them. The only neighboring house is for sale, and noisy Ted buys it and moves in, creating trouble for River....