NZWG Library

The NZWG Library contains New Zealand’s most comprehensive collection of books, magazines, scripts and other materials related to script writing. All NZWG members can use the library to gain knowledge on writing scripts and experienced writers will find materials that can assist them improve their craft.

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Library

All scripts may be borrowed from the Auckland Head Office and will be posted out to members outside of Auckland, if requested.

The Timpson Collection is a collection of  classic and modern feature movie and television scripts that have been generously donated to the NZWG by Ant and Matt Timpson.​

General Lending Conditions

  • LOAN PERIOD: Items are loaned out for a maximum of 4 weeks. Please return before or on the due date.
  • EXTENSIONS: Upon request library items can be loaned for a further period of 2 weeks, provided another Member has not requested the item.
  • MAXIMUM: Up to 4 items may be borrowed at any time.
  • REFERENCE ONLY: Must be used on site and may not be borrowed.
  • MAIL LIBRARY: Upon request items will be mailed out to Members unable to visit the library in person - only for Auckland library.
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Associate, The
Nick Thiel & Nick Hornby
Script
Film
2005
Available
On Loan
Film
Script
At home at the end of the world
Michael Cunningham
Available
On Loan
Australia & New Zealand Directory of World Cinema.
Ben Goldsmith & Geoff Lealand
Intellect Press, UK
Book
2010
Available
On Loan
Book
Australian Film 1978 - 1994.
Scott Murray
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Book
1995
Available
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Book
Avengers, The
Don Macpherson
Based on true events.
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Awakenings
Steven Zaillian & Carl Erickson & Don Mullaly - Mystery of the Wax Museum
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Babe
Chris Noonan and George Miller
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Backdraft
Revisions by Greg Widen
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Bad Lieutenant, The
Spanish drama
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Bad News Bears
Glenn Ficarra & John Requa & Christopher Buckley
Small
Script
Film
2005
Available
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Film
Script
Barbarians at the Gate
Larry Gelbart & Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Script
Film
2005
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Film
Script
Barney Miller
Tom Reeder
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Barry Lindon
Stanley Kubrick
Script
Film
2004
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Film
Script
Barton Fink
Joel and
Loosely based on American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo.
Script
Film
2004
Available
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Film
Script
Basic
James Vanderbilt
Script
Film
2004
Available
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Film
Script
Basketball Diaries, The
Joel and Ethan Coen & Maurice Gee
Script
Film
2004
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Film
Script
Batman
Sam Hamm
Based on the Arthurian legends
Script
Film
2004
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Film
Script
Batman And Robin
Akiva Gold
Script
Film
2004
Available
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Film
Script
Battlestar Galactica: The Hand Of God
Donald Bellisario
Script
2003
Available
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Script
Baywatch: The Big Race
Rolf Wallengren
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Beaches
Mary Agnes Donoghue
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Beautiful Girls
Scott Rosenberg
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Mike Judge & Joe Stillman & Michael Avon Oeming
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Becoming a Writer: The Classic Inspirational Guide
Dorothea Brande
Macmillan, London
Book
1996
Available
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Book
Beethoven
Edmond Dantes
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Beetlejuice
Michael McDowelll. Revised by Warren Skaaren & Charles Frazier
Small unbound
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Before Night Falls.
Cunningham O'Keefe, Lazaro Gomez Carriles and Julian Schnabel
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan & Stephen King
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Beguiled, The
Albert Maltz
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Behind the tattooed face
Rena Owen, Riki's Brown
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Being John Malkovich
Charlie Kaufman & Philip Roth
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Being There
Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones & Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Ben Hur
Karl Tunberg
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Best Man, The
Malcolm D. Lee
NZ film
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Betsy's Wedding
Alan Alda
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Betty Anne Waters
Pamela Gray & Eric Garcia
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Beverly Hills Cop
Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Script
Film
2003
Available
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Film
Script
Big
Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg & Nanci Kincaid – Pretending to be Dead
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Big Easy, The
Jim McBride & Dennis Lehane
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Big Hit, The
Ben Ramsey & Philip K. Dick
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Big Lebowski, The
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Script
Film
2003
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Film
Script
Big Night
Stanley Tucci and Joseph Tropiano
Script
Film
2003
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Script
Big Sleep, The
William Faulkner
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Big Trouble In Little China
W.D Richter
Script
Film
2002
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Script
Big Wednesday
Dennis Aaberg and John Milius & Nick Hornby
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Big race, the
Rolf Wallengren
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Birds, The
Alfred Hitchcock & Michael Chabon
Donated by Michael Bennett
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Birdy
Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr & Frank Abagnale
Biographical Crime Drama Film
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Black Hawk Down
Ken Nolan
Script
Film
2002
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Script
Black Panther
Melvin Van Peebles
Script
Film
2002
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Script
Black Rain
Crag Bolotin & Warren Lewis & Rebecca Wells
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Black Sheep
Jonathan King & Ethan Canin – The Palace Thief
Script
Film
2002
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Script
Black Swan
Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin and Andres Heniz
Style of a Douglas Sirk film.
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Black lagoon
Arthur Ross
Available
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Blackeyes.
Dennis Potter
Faber & Faber, London
Book
1988
Available
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Book
Blade Runner
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Blade Runner
Hampton Fancher & David Peoples & Po Bronson
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bliss
Peter Carey and Ray Lawrence
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bloodline
Donna Malane, Paula Boock
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Blow Out
Brian De Palma
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blue Chips
Ron Shelton
Semi-autobiographical by writers
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blue Collar
Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blue Sky
Rama Laurie Stagner
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blue Velvet
David Lynch & Charles Dickens
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blue Velvet
David Lynch
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Blues Brothers, The
Dan Aykroyd and John Landis
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bobby
Emilio Estevez & W?adys?aw "Wladek" Szpilman
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Body Of Evidence
Brad Mirman
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Bodyguard, The
Lawrence Kasdan & Thomas Harris
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bonfire Of The Vanities, The
Michael Christopher
Based on true events
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bookworm
David Mamet & Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway - We Were Soldiers Once… And Young
Script
Film
2002
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Film
Script
Bordello Of Blood
Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis and A L Katz & Gilbert Adler & Witi Ihimaera
3 x donated by Liz DiFiore
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone & Ron Kovic & Janet Fitch
Script
Film
2002
Available
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Film
Script
Bound
Larry and Andy Wachowski & Sylvia Nasar
Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Bow Down Shadrach
Ian Mune
Biopic
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Bowfinger
Steve Martin
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Boxing Helena
Jennifer Lynch
NZ film
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Boy's Life, A (aka E.T.)
Melissa Mathison
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Boys Don't Cry
Kimberley Pierce
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Boys On The Side
Dno Roos & Andre Dubas
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Boyz N The Hood
John Singleton & Action- Adventure - Tomb Raider
Script
Film
2001
Available
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Film
Script
Brady Bunch Movie, The
Sherwood Schwartz and Lloyd J. Schwartz & J R R Tolkien
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jim Hart
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Braveheart
Randall Wallace
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Breakdown
Jonathan Mostow
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Breakfast At Tiffany's
George Axelrod
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Breaking and Entering
Anthony Minghella
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Breathless
Jim McBride and L.M Kit Carson and Michael Jenning & William Steig – Shrek!
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Bride of Frankenstein
William Hurlbut
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Bridesmaids
Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Script
Film
2001
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Script
Bridge to Terabithia
Jeff Stockwell
Remake of Spanish film Open Your Eyes by Amenábar and Mateo Gil
Script
Film
2001
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Film
Script
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Gordon Dawson & Sam Peckinpah
Script
Animated
2000
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Animated
Script
Bringing Out the Dead
Paul Schrader & Cormac McArthy
1 x Timpson
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Broken Arrow
Graham Yost
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Broken English
Gregory Nicholas & Johanna Piggot
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Brother From Another Planet, The
John Sayles & Joanne Harris
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Buckaroo Banzai
Earl Mac Rauch & Marvel Comics
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script

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