Origins (2020)

Season 1

Scotty Morrison explores the history of the Maori people.

Released Sept. 15, 2020 Episode 44 min 2+

Genres: Documentary

Watch Providers: Tastemade Apple TV Channel, Tastemade Amazon Channel

Network: TVNZ+

Country: New Zealand
Languages: English

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Dan Salmon
Director

Scotty Morrison
Presenter

S1E1 - Search for Hawaiki

Scotty Morrison explores the origins of the Māori people, visiting the Wairau Bar site which could be the first community in Aotearoa. Scotty tries to locate his hawaiki, his homeland, in the Pacific, but is hawaiki a real place or just a concept?

Sept. 15, 2020, midnight

S1E2 - Birth of Polynesia

Scotty learns how early Pākehā researchers got the origins of Māori so wrong. He is surprised to find that several traditional folktales in Samoa are replicated in Māori culture and he makes a shock personal discovery at an ancient Vanuatu urupa.

Sept. 22, 2020, midnight

S1E3 - Ancient Homelands

Series Finale: Scotty travels to Ethiopia to explore the place that is said to be the origin of us all, and he visits the Cook Islands - the stepping off point for waka heading to Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.

Sept. 29, 2020, midnight

TVNZ+

44 min/ep

221 min

Sept. 15, 2020

Sept. 12, 2023, midnight

Returning Series

TV-G / 2+