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- This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- Jasper always felt privileged to go to an alternative school. He felt chosen. But when he in his 40s talks to his old schoolmates, he is forced to realize that his positive memories came a the expense of other students' security.
- A North American prison is testing elements from the Scandinavian penitentiary system. But the challenges are great. How do Americans manage to focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment, to change the attitude of employees, and to deal with a pandemic? The series follows the American prison SCI Chester, Pennsylvania, from 2018 to 2023.
- About some residents of Vinslöv village, their everyday life and hobbies.
- In 1628 was one of Europe's largest ship, the Vasa, completed. The summer gathered thousands of curious along Stockholm's quays to see her slip out on her maiden voyage.
- Swedish Metal Aid was a Swedish hard rock band that was created in 1985 to record a single for the benefit of the starving in Ethiopia. About 80 Swedish hard rockers from 29 bands participated in the album, which sold 50,000 copies.
- Frank Sinatra was at rock bottom as far as his career in Hollywood was concerned, but made his way back to the spotlight via Finspångs Folkets park in 1953 in front of 537 local fans. Hollywood no longer wanted to know about Frank Sinatra, he divorced his wife Nancy in 1951 to marry the actress Ava Gardner, "the most beautiful woman in the world" and he went to Las Vegas to get his career going again. But in 1952 he was fired from Columbia Pictures.. A year later he was in Sweden on tour and performed in Finspång. Only 537 turned up.The ticket was a whopping SEK 4 against the normal 1:50. The arrangement backfired.
- For more than 30 years, the bank-robber Janne Olsson refused to talk about the noted bank-robbery at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, in 1973. This is the first interview with Olsson.
- Sweden's largest drug lawsuit of all time. Jonas Falk was convicted to 18 years in prison. He was later cleared of all charges in the second instance. This documentary series provides insights into the many years to get Falk convicted.
- We follow Ulla-Carin through a few months at the end of her life. It depicts the disease ALS, with all its consequences and how a person deals with a condition that little by little breaks down his body.
- Hamida Abdullah, a pioneering Afghan TV comedian, soared to fame with Shirin Gul, defying norms. Fleeing Kabul during the Taliban's rise, she now resides in a small Swedish town. Her burning desire? A triumphant return to the stage.
- Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television.
- "Kronofogden kommer" - about the indebted who are visited by friendly, overworked officials who just follow the rules and the regulations.
- The film portrays Lasse Holmqvist's life from growing up in Osby through his career in radio and television to the tragic end in financial ruin
- In the fall of 1944, four ships sailed out of Finnish ports and headed west. On board were not only the core group of Finnish intelligence, but also hundreds of boxes of top-secret material on the Soviet military, as well as technical equipment for advanced signals intelligence. The intention was to seek sanctuary in Sweden for continued intelligence service. Several of the people involved in Operation Stella Polaris are still alive. One of them is Stig Axelsson, Swedish liaison specialist, occasionally active in Finland, in Finnish uniform. Now he and others tell about the strange turns of the operation, which ended with the secret boxes being burned at the Löfsta waste station in December 1960.
- Focuses on the lives and challenges faced by several individuals who run a second hand shop on Hornsgatan in Stockholm.
- In the criminal world there are strict rules. The young Sabri has broken the taboo of the criminals - he has run afoul of the police. Admittedly, he takes everything back in court, but the court believes Sabri and sentences his former comrades to prison. Now he is accepted neither in the underworld nor in society. What will Sabri do when he has everyone against him and nowhere to go? Is there anyone to trust?
- The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as twenty previously unknown stone-age peoples and languages. From the late 1940's and onwards he commuted the world, focusing on the most isolated peoples still remaining on the globe. He adopted 57 children to his commune at the National Institutes of Health, MA, USA -most of them boys. In the late 90's he was charged with having abused one of the boys in his care - a then 16-year old boy from Micronesia. The film reveals how Gajdusek in fact was a self-proclaimed pedophile, who admitted to having had sex with numerous other children as well. One man who was abused in childhood is interviewed in the film, as well as several legendary scientists who were friends of Gajdusek and deemed the sexual parts of his character as of less importance.
- This is a documentary about the Swedish former prime minister Göran Persson's time in power, made by Erik Fichtelius, Kjell Tunegård and Paolo Rodriguez.
- Khazar Fatemi meets people who live under threat and risk their lives to save their culture.
- The story of the East German puppet animation Unser Sandmannchen, in Norway known as Jon Blund from the TV-series "Jul i Skomakergata".
- Depicts the last year of the great famine in Sweden, the year of emergency 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who were hurt, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. Sweden was hit by the country's last famine disaster. After an unusually cold spring and summer in 1867, the snow remained at midsummer in many places in Norrland. The next year there was a drought in southern Sweden. The result was stunted growth and famine, which culminated in the spring of 1869.
- The sequel to Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy launched simultaneously in 27 countries. The man behind the novel is David Lagercrantz, and critics call him a simple ghostwriter. Well, how do you live whit that?
- About the work behind the scenes and the emergence of the organization Wikileaks. Wikileaks has carried out history's largest revelations of classified information.
- A long series of year chronicles about what happened in Sweden and the world.
- "Cheat sheet for idle - skills you might do without" - 'The Drunk Trio': Ivar Wallin, guitar, Erik Wiberg, accordion and Bror Wiberg, mandolin, play songs by Harry Rydell. The farm trader Sixten Landby talks about how to become a peddler, while cycling on a path to his own story about the profession. Kuno Persson, poet and ore prospector, stands on the beach and reads his own poem about the river.
- Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in Rågsved in the 70s. But Göte lives and so do many more. So what happened then?
- Anne Lundberg and Sofia Helin meet people who have been affected by suicide in different ways. They meet with survivors, relatives and experts to better understand what we need to do to reduce mental suffering.
- The children were born with severe deformities and were predicted a bleak future. Thirty years later, they are stubborn, independent people, used to replacing lack of physical resources with ingenuity and will.
- About the relationship between the German Nazi Hermann Göring and Sweden, where he soon settled down and also met a woman, Carin Fock, whom he married in 1923.
- The brothers were only 5 and 7 years old when the police singled them out as responsible for the murder of 4-year-old Kevin. Since then, they have lived their lives in secret. They have never given their view of what happened until now.
- Fourteen players of the women's crowns write an email to the national team management. They ask not for a bigger salery, they ask to be treated with a higher human value. And after the email so are Emma Eliasson pulled from The team.
- When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the birth of punk rockers of Ebba Grön.
- About Karl Rune Oskarsson 380925-2335, alcoholic - Kåge Jonsson directed this odd drama documentary based on the participants' own experiences and authentic journal entries about Karl Rune "Nollan" Oskarsson who "yo-yos" in and out of several detox centers and forced care. A hard-hitting piece of black and white Swedish social realism from the dark alleys of the welfare society, populated by the homeless outcast of Stockholm.
- For over 40 years, the Swedish defense has been chasing offending submarines without succeeding in forcing anyone to the surface. Producer Bo Lindquist has met the military who led and participated in the secret operations.
- A documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alfons Åberg, the main character in a children's book series by Swedish author and illustrator Gunilla Bergström. We'll get to see how the characters and illustrations was made.
- It's like a miracle, writing a book with the knuckles of the left index finger and the right thumb. Mattias Agnesund is the author who, despite a paralyzing muscle disease, wrote a biography of Einar Ekberg.
- In Havana, Linda meets what she thinks is the love of her life. But it'll seem not to be what she was expecting. When she gives birth to their daughter everything falls apart in the shadow of his need of having control.
- This Scandinavian production draws on some of the observational strategies of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, allowing us to reflect on patterns and phenomena of human and natural existence from both intimate and sweeping viewpoints.
- In "det svåra livet" are we following Pia, who is homeless. Where she and Gunnar (her partner at the time), are selling Situation Sthlm - the homeless' own newspaper at Karlaplan in Stockholm.
- A 9-part series about the situation in Sweden - socio-economic perspectives, private, mental and addiction issues and about those that are left on the outside of the welfare lobby.
- After more than 50 years in the service of television, Tom Alandh now looks back on his professional life and remembers and reflects on some of the people he met over the years.
- For over 20 years, film enthusiast Anders Olofsson has worked with his own feature film Stall-Erik och Snapphanarna. The film, which is a historical adventure drama, can boast the most impressive cast in Swedish film history.
- Fadime Sahindal, symbol of Sweden's fight against honor violence, is killed by her father in 2002. The film delves into the controversies surrounding honor violence, two decades later. What is the legacy of Fadime?
- A documentary series in three parts that makes a deep dive into Jan Stenbeck's life and work
- An investigative program series about injustice, trickery and shady business.
- Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over.
- For the first time, facts are presented that show how many people are seriously injured, forced to undergo extensive operations and given life-threatening injuries.
- Ten years ago, Börje, Hans-Enar, Johnny and Lars were confined to Säter's secure pavilion. Sentenced to inpatient psychiatric care for murder or other serious violent crimes. Documentary filmmaker Noomi Liljefors stepped into this closed, mythical world and met "the dangerous men". Now she lets us meet them again; after all, they harbor a glimmer of hope for a life after Säter. A follow-up to "Bilder från Säter - hos de farliga männen" (1986).
- A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its consequences. A film about the view of Norrland in these EC times.