4 episodes of the documentary series "Ancestors of Our Ancestors" tell about the history of the settlement of a distant and mysterious country - New Zealand. Dozens of interviews followed - with the indigenous Maori and immigrants from Europe. Unusual foreign rituals and holidays. Exclusive footage from land, water and air. All the most important and iconic monuments of history, culture and nature

Today, New Zealand produces less than 1% of the world's wines, yet offers an impressive variety of styles. We visited the South Island of New Zealand - Eldorado Sauvignon Blanc. Local wines from this variety have made the country famous, creating a new, bright and tropical style with rich and sunny aromas of passion fruit, gooseberry, freshly cut grass, mango and lychee that intertwine and literally burst out of the glass

Kingseat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of New Zealand's notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011 

The film is based on the mystery of the origin of the Maori. The Maori are believed to have arrived in New Zealand in the 12th century AD. And their ancestral home is the mythical country of Hawaiki, whose name is preserved in ancient Maori myths and legends

Europeans began colonizing New Zealand in the 19th century. And for a long time they treated the indigenous people as representatives of a primitive culture, savages. Maori culture is much deeper and richer than it seems at first glance. New Zealand in the 19th century

For five centuries the Maori have been the sole owners of their land. And in the XVIII century, New Zealand was rediscovered by James Cook, and a stream of immigrants from Europe poured into the country. With James Cook, European civilization came to New Zealand

In the XVIII century, after New Zealand was rediscovered by James Cook, a stream of immigrants from Europe poured into the country. People of different cultures and different backgrounds were looking for a new life, new opportunities, happiness and wealth here