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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- About some residents of Vinslöv village, their everyday life and hobbies.
- Spirits, crystals, secret societies and witches are more relevant than ever. A large proportion of Swedes, especially the young, believe that life continues in some form after death and that many people have paranormal abilities.
- 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.
- The story of the East German puppet animation Unser Sandmannchen, in Norway known as Jon Blund from the TV-series "Jul i Skomakergata".
- 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.
- "Voices and the Art of the Voice" - a journey deep down the throat to the origin of the voice. About how people in different professions and privately use their voice. How research in speech, music and hearing is conducted. And about the very first scream.
- About the work behind the scenes and the emergence of the organization Wikileaks. Wikileaks has carried out history's largest revelations of classified information.
- Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day
- About the dominance of plastic in everyday gadgets and design.
- Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders and was sentenced to eight of them. He was silent for seven years, until he dividend to tell the through.
- For almost a year, SVT's crime reporters Karin Fagerlund and Lasse Lampers have followed the investigation into 21-year-old Tove Tönnies death in Vetlanda - from Tove's disappearance to the verdict against two young women in the Court of Appeal. In their search for answers, Karin and Lasse meet investigators, prosecutors and lawyers and review the details of the investigation. They also meet neighbors, acquaintances and others involved to get to the bottom of what really happened and how it affected Vetlanda as a community.
- Oskar Jönsson and Emil Larsson have been following those who are at the forefront of the fight against the corona pandemic in Sweden.
- 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.
- A documentary series in three parts that makes a deep dive into Jan Stenbeck's life and work
- One hundred years ago in 1923, Stockholm's city hall was inaugurated. A documentary about how the controversial architect Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945), through strikes, war and years of crisis, fights together with craftsmen and artists to create Sweden's last monumental building built entirely by hand - a house for the newly won democracy. With unique archive material, we go behind the scenes in Stockholm's city hall both a hundred years ago - but also today. In the film, we meet royalty, glitter of gold but also cleaners and construction workers and get to see something other than the glamour of the Nobel Prize Celebration.
- "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.
- A long series of year chronicles about what happened in Sweden and the world.
- In 1974 made Alandh his first program about Martina, a girl whit Down syndrome.. And her mother have never left her side. instead, - and here In 1998, was it time for the fourth program when Martina turned 30 years old.
- Twenty toilets, a urinal and four ladies who work in the public toilet at Sergels Torg in Stockholm. They are the ones who make sure that the facilities are clean and that there's toilet paper. They also watch over drug users.
- 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.
- Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?
- 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.
- Portrait of the Swedish artist, sculptor, estradeur, author, designer, and professor, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016).
- Stig Bergling (1937-2015) alias Eugén Sandberg alias Stig Sydholt. Three names, one person. The main character in one of Sweden's most famous spy stories. On March 12, 1979, Bergling was arrested by the Israeli security police and shortly afterwards he was transferred to Swedish custody. On December 7, Bergling is sentenced to life imprisonment for aggravated espionage and aggravated unauthorized position with a secret mission, but the story of Stig Bergling does not end with the life sentence. October 6, 1987, during a leave from Norrköping Institution, Bergling escapes together with his wife Elisabeth. The couple manage to get over to Åland, further through Finland and with final destination Moscow.
- A second chance is the story of some of those who suffered a serious accident that changed their future.
- Janne Schaffer has participated in more than 5,000 recordings with artists such as ABBA, Ted Gärdestad, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Toto and Bob Marley. Janne released her first solo album 40 years ago and has also written film music.
- Few poets have been as appreciated and loved as Bodil Malmsten. Her pioneering style drew the broad masses to poetry and shaped generations of readers. But she herself had a hard time feeling that she was dying - a feeling that over time became so strong that in her middle age she left everything and emigrated to Finistère, Bretagne. In the film, family and friends tell about how Bodil Malmsten wrote to conjure up her inner darkness.
- A highly controversial documentary about the murder of Sweden's Prime minister Olof Palme, for DR, DFI and SVT.
- 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.
- 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.
- A 12-part series about life, work and play at the local newspaper Dala Demokraten.
- 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.
- "Without me you are nothing!" - Romanian maestro Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996) transformed the orchestra at Sweden's Radio from an entertainment ensemble into the world-famous Radio Symphony Orchestra. Celibidache was an elitist and demanding demon conductor who, with his colorful performance in black and white television, became a household name with the Swedish people. And the memories still live, for better or for worse, in Sweden's Radio Symphony Orchestra.
- 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.
- Rosling is professor of public health. And his lectures on the development of the world has been seen by Al Gore and Bill Gates. He wants to make everyone question their prejudices about the world - as he was forced to do with his own.
- Now Sweden is part of the great community, the European Union. Is that for better or worse? What does the people say?
- Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before going to his job as a janitor at SVT.
- Bao Ninh's novel "Krigets sorger/The Sorrows of the War" deals with how the Vietnamese themselves perceived the war. A low-key and desperate picture, far from the heroic self-sacrificing struggle that those in power like to emphasize.
- 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.
- 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?
- For the first time we get to see how Swedish justice works behind closed doors, inside the courtroom. Can we trust the Swedish legal system and get everyone the same legal aid?
- Gunilla Boëthius is 73 years old when her life history and identity suddenly change. Through a DNA test, she gets a brand new father - the Finnish war hero and General Paavo Talvela. Those who have withheld the truth for her have died a long time ago, where there is no one to answer. Who is Gunilla really - is she a love child who came into being in the shadow of the war and not at all the firstborn to the debater CG Boëthius? Now she needs to travel in Paavo's footsteps to recreate herself.
- 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?
- For more than twenty years, Tom Alandh has wanted to make a film about music lovers Monica and Carl-Axel Dominique. Those who for more than 60 years have played with all the greats on all the entertainment stages. Now that film is ready.