Local entertainers Keola Beamer and Jeff Peterson teach children in Bali to play the ʻukulele.

A 1995 film by Tom Coffman that chronicles the islands’ history. The documentary features Kumu John Keola Lake sharing stories and chants; Herb Kāne, renowned artist and co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society; and scholar and author Rubellite Kawena Johnson.

Follow Isaac Hoʻopiʻi in the years after he rescued victims from the Pentagon in the 9/11 attacks.

Hawaiʻi mirrored Western culture after annexation but a renaissance revived language, mele and hula.

About six months after 9/11, Hawai‘i TV journalist-turned-independent producer Emme Tomimbang Burns learned that two teenaged daughters of a fallen Bronx, New York firefighter, Ray Meisenheimer, were planning to perform a dance in honor of their father at a 9/11 remembrance event in their Long Island community.

Western contact began a chain of events that forever changed the Hawaiian Islands.

Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home.

Chants tell the story of Polynesian explorers discovering and settling the Hawaiian Islands.