Hans Villius

1000 Years: A Swedish History

A documentary that tells the history of Sweden through the eyes of the people and showing their living conditions for the past 1000 years.

Operation Stella Polaris

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.

Moses, Aron och Karl XII

Beginning at Bohu's fortress, Hans Villius guides viewers through Norway, a country whose history has often coincided with ours. It is a story not only of the death of Charles XII and Carolines in a blizzard on their way to disaster, but also of the German battleship sunk in the Oslo Fjord and of radical Norway's struggle for independence from Sweden.

G som i hemlig

About the Siemens Geheimschreiber - G printer - a crypto machine that Hitler's engineers designed in the 30's. The mathematician Arne Beurling at Uppsala University revealed the G-printer's secret.

Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem for the Swedish government. On one hand remaining friendly with Germany at the height of its power, on the other maintaining a strict neutrality. The Swedish cabinet meet in Stockholm to decide upon the best reply to the German demands.

Skånska mord - Veberödsmannen

Martin Svensson was an evil and brutal man that drifted around in Skåne with his family in the beginning of the 20th century.

The Man from Majorca

In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials.

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite

A film about Alfred Nobel.

Ett Satans År

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. SVT's documentary filmmaker Olle Häger passed away in November 2014. We remember him by showing some of his appreciated films during the summer.

Den som inte är med oss - Sverige i det kalla kriget

"He who is not with us - Sweden in the Cold War" - During the post-war period, the Nordic countries adapted their foreign policy to the prevailing political situation. Sweden officially balanced its foreign policy between the two great powers of the Cold War - USA and Soviet Union - in the same way as during WWII and described itself as neutral.

En röst ur det förgångna

"A voice from the past: a program about the explorer and politician Sven Hedin (1865-1952)" - based on his own statements and writings. Takes us through expeditions in Asia, Olympic Games in Stockholm and Berlin, two world wars, and a Swedish political conflict during the 1930s when the pro-Nazi Swedish party Sweden's National Federation aspired to power.