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Revolution

Name: Revolution
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ian Fraser

1996 1 season 4 eps G

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S1 · E1 · Jun 19, 1996

Fortress New Zealand Episode 1

This first episode focuses on NZ's radical transformation from a heavily regulated welfare state to a petri dish for free market ideology. It includes interviews with key political and business figures of the day, who reveal how the dire economic situation by the end of Robert Muldoon's reign made it relatively easy for Roger Douglas to implement extreme reform

55 min

S1 · E2 · Jun 26, 1996

The Grand Illusion Episode 2

This second episode argues that in its first term in office, the Labour Government promoted neoliberal reform via illusory ideas of consensus and fairness, while PM David Lange mined goodwill from its indie anti-nuclear policy (famously in an Oxford Union debate, see third clip). The interviews include key figures in politics, the public service and business: an age of easy lending and yuppie excess is recalled, while those in rural areas recount the downside of job losses.

55 min

S1 · E3 · Jul 3, 1996

The Great Divide Episode 3

This third episode looks at the lurch of the Kiwi stock market from boom to bust in 1987, and the growing philosophical divide between “head boys” PM David Lange and finance minister Roger 'Rogernomics' Douglas. Within two months of the October 1987 stock market crash, $21 billion was lost from the value of NZ shares. Lange and Douglas give accounts of how their differing views on steering the NZ economy eventually resulted in both their resignations.

55 min

S1 · E4 · Jul 10, 1996

The New Country Episode 4

This final episode sums up, after examining "the second wave" of neoliberal reform when National took power in 1990 shortly after Telecom was sold to American interests. Incoming finance minister Ruth "mother of all budgets" Richardson oversaw a reduction of welfare payments, a shake-up of the health system, and a curbing of union powers. Richardson: "in a human sense I understood that [community outrage], but that wasn't going to deflect me".

4 episodes in Season 1

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Four-part series Revolution mapped sweeping social and economic change in New Zealand society in the 1980s and early 1990s. Judged Best Factual Series at the 1997 NZ Television Awards, it collected together archive footage, and interviews with the major players. Said producer Marcia Russell: “We wanted to make Revolution because we believed that unless we re-run and re-examine our recent history we are in constant danger of forgetting, and forgetting can render us passive about the present and slaves of the future.

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Marcia Russell

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John Carlaw

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Bill Toepfer

Total runtime 3h 40m · Episode length 55 min · Type Documentary

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Premiered

June 19, 1996

Final episode

July 10, 1996

Status

Ended

Network

TVNZ

Country

United States · New Zealand

Type

Documentary

Episode length

55 min

Total runtime

3h 40m

Original language

English

Production

NZ on Air

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English

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Revolution

Season 1

Fortress New Zealand Episode 1

The Grand Illusion Episode 2

The Great Divide Episode 3

The New Country Episode 4

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Revolution

Season 1

Fortress New Zealand Episode 1

The Grand Illusion Episode 2

The Great Divide Episode 3

The New Country Episode 4

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