The Essentials
- AFS New Zealand Welcome Booklet
- AFS Participant Guide
- AFS Medical Guide
- Host School FAQ
- Arrival Information
- Visa FAQ
Digging Deeper
Cultural Resources
- Hofstede Center: New Zealand
- BBC: New Zealand History Timeline
- New Zealand Culture and Society
- Culture Grams
–Username: afsusa – Password: cgrams
News and Media
- New Zealand Herald
- Dominion Post
- Press
- Otago Daily Times
- Waikato Times‘
- Wild Tomato
- Radio New Zealand
Movies and Documentaries
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- This is New Zealand (1970)
- Whale Rider (2002)
- Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
- World’s Fastest Indian (2006)
- This Way of Life (2009)
- Once Were Warriors (1994)
- The Piano (1993)
- Mind the Gap (2013)
- An Angel at My Table (1990)
- The Strength of Water (2009)
- Cinema of Unease (1995)
Books
- Into the River (2012)
- Mister Pip (2006)
- The Whale Rider (1987)
- The Luminaries (2013)
- Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand (2005)
- Long Cloud Ride (2007)
- A Land of Two Halves (2004)
- Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All (2008)
- The Bone People (1984)
- A Pattern of Island (1952)
- The 1 Thing: A Small Epic Journey Down New Zealand’s Mother Road (2006)
- High Country Woman: My Life On Rees Valley Station (2012)
LGBTQ Resources
Heritage and Ethnicity Resources