The governor (1977)

Watch a dramatisation of the events leading up to the Waikato War of 1863–4, featuring Don Selwyn as Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa. The governor was a landmark television series about the life of Sir George Grey, and was both ambitious and highly controversial at the time of its release.

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