The Hollow Men
The inside story of a National Party election campaign
The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.
Where to Watch
Availability: United States
No regional provider information is available for United States.
Streaming availability data provided by JustWatch.
Top Cast
Nick Blake
Narrator (voice)
Donald Brash
Self
John Key
Self
Bill English
Self
Vaughan Slinn
Bryan Sinclair (voice)
Julie Thorns
Diane Foreman (voice)
Sam Snedden
Matthew Hooton (voice)
Bruce Phillips
Peter Keenan (voice)
Russell Campbell
Don Brash (voice)
Mick Rose
Murray McCully (voice)
Matthew Chamberlain
Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)
Phil Peleton
Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader
John Bach
Michael Bassett (voice)
Cohen Holloway
John Ansell (voice)
Abi King-Jones
Anita Ferguson (voice)
Rachel Weaver
Women's Focus Group Leader
Chris Brooks
Doorman
Melanie McLuskie
Restaurant Waitress
Danika Morris-Brown
Banquet Waitress
Rob Jerram
Rollscreen Man
Crew
Writers
Cinematographers
More Like This
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2019 · ★ 6.5
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · ★ 7.5
Downloaded
2013 · ★ 6.5
Powaqqatsi
1988 · ★ 7.2
Above Majestic
2018 · ★ 7.4
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019 · ★ 7.1
My Mom Jayne
2025 · ★ 8.0
The Corporation
2003 · ★ 7.6
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
2011 · ★ 7.4
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006 · ★ 6.6
Deliver Us from Evil
2006 · ★ 7.2
Looking for Richard
1996 · ★ 6.8
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006 · ★ 6.8
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022 · ★ 6.8
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · ★ 6.2
Love, Marilyn
2013 · ★ 6.5
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
2020 · ★ 6.7
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017 · ★ 6.4
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
1978 · ★ 6.7
Being James Bond
2021 · ★ 7.8
More from This Director
More Featuring Nick Blake
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · ★ 7.3
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · ★ 7.6
District 9
2009 · ★ 7.5
Mortal Engines
2018 · ★ 6.3
Black Sheep
2006 · ★ 5.8
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025 · ★ 6.1
Pike River
2025 · ★ 5.8
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2004 · ★ 6.5
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
2015 · ★ 6.4
Kiwi
2018
Home by Christmas
2010 · ★ 3.7
Chronesthesia
2016 · ★ 5.5
Eel Girl
2008 · ★ 5.7
Blue Cow
Broken Glass
2012