In 1998, a locally-made film exposed what Native Hawaiians had written, talked and sung about for a century: the true story of how and why Hawai‘i became part of the United States.

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.

Part 3 focuses on how Hawaiians changed as a people and as a society after becoming part of the United States.

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.

A nationally recognized K9 Unit Officer, Isaac Ho‘opi‘i is responsible for saving numerous people from the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. CORRIDOR FOUR illustrates Isaac’s story in the aftermath, a story not of a hero basking in the glory of his past deeds but of a human being filled with regret that he couldn’t change something completely out of his control.

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.

Two women return to the atoll where they grew up and find the atoll and themselves forever changed.

Hawaiʻi-based emergency room physician Darragh O’Carroll travels to Australia to investigate the dramatic effects of climate change on plant, animal and human life in the land down under.