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Ka Whawhai Tonu depicts the Battle of Ōrākau, the best-known conflict of the New Zealand Wars, in which iwi aligned to the Kīngitanga movement, and led by Rewi Maniapoto, faced a reckoning with the imperial forces ordered into the Waikato by Governor George Grey.
The film puts the audience into the trenches of the Ōrākau pā