Movies and TvShows featuring "hawaiian-culture" theme.

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.

Flirtation Walk is a romantic musical movie set at the United States Military Academy, West Point. The film revolves around a love story between a young cadet and a native Hawaiian girl. It showcases their flirtatious encounters, the challenges they face due to cultural differences, and the music and dances that bring them closer. The movie also touches upon the themes of duty, honor, and sacrifice that are inherent in military life.

A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles to find love and a committed relationship in her own life.

Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.

Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred to the Hawaiian people. For five years the documentary production team Nā Maka o ka 'Āina ("the eyes of the land") captured on video the seasonal moods of Mauna Kea's unique 14,000-foot summit, the richly varied ecosystems that extend from sea level to alpine zone, the legends and stories that reveal the mountain's geologic and cultural history, and the political turbulence surrounding the efforts to protect the most significant temple in the islands: the mountain itself.

Dr. Richard Dawkins and Dr. Robert Trivers talk about the potential for an environmental catastrophe and why humans are destroying the world.

Born in the small town of Li'ea on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii Chef Sam Choy was born into a family of cooks. In fact ability to cook was a skill demanded of Choy and his siblings at a young age. 'If you did cook, you didn't eat' was a line Pat Choy, Sam's brother, remembers being told many a time as a young infant. For Chef Choy the this would turn into a passion and then profession. In Hawaii he would come to be known as the Godfather of Poké by the many locals who would watch his cooking show.