Type: Movies
Genre: Documentary
2067 content found
Scener ur ett vardagsliv 2009

Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. "Scenes from everyday life" is a film about art and aging, life, love and death.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Tom Alandh, Erland Josephson, Terry Gerolimatos

383 Views
Riveted: The History of Jeans 2022

The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: James Sullivan, Kimberly Jenkins, Rabbit Goody

377 Views
Sara med allt sitt väsen 2019

The life and times of noted Swedish author Sara Lidman, famous for her working-class novels set in northern Sweden and her work for peace in Vietnam during the war.

Category: Documentary

5.9 IMDB Rating 377 Views
Strange Walks In and Through and Out 1987

A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss’ period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to fame.

Category: Documentary

339 Views
Becoming Cary Grant 2017

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Mark Kidel, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra

6.6 IMDB Rating 435 Views
Frida – en trotjänarinna 1999

The 86-year-old Frida Nilsson finally gets a home of her own. For most of her life, she has worked as a housekeeper for a doctor in Östermalm, Stockholm, and lived in a servant's room inside the kitchen.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Frida Nilsson

7.3 IMDB Rating 497 Views
Stranger in My Own Skin 2023

A documentary on the life of English rock star Peter Doherty, and his struggle with addiction to hard drugs.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Pete Doherty

360 Views
Sophia Loren 2019

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Marlon Brando, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 486 Views
Subject 2022

Filmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Evgeny Afineevsky, Arthur Agee, Mukunda Angulo

7.1 IMDB Rating 459 Views
Taikon 2015

Documentary about the Life of romani writer and activist Katarina Taicon. The documentary tells the story of how Katarina Taicon became a leading voice when the Romani people in Sweden fought for their civil rights and how she influenced an entire generation of kids with her books about young romani girl Katitzi.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Mårten Andersson, Hans Caldaras, Bernd Janusch

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,690 Views
Tåg i Afrika 1964

Filmmaker Bo Bjelfvenstam travels alone with his camera through Nigeria by train. The train runs from Kano to Lagos, a journey that takes 36 hours.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Bo Bjelfvenstam

272 Views
The Fourth Window 2021

Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his mother committed suicide, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent, ending all communication with him.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Amos Oz

6.7 IMDB Rating 365 Views
Världens vackraste pojke 2021

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi

6.8 IMDB Rating 452 Views
Vännerna i skogen 2022

Childhood friends Emil and Jonathan reunite in hopes of rediscovering their friendship and freedom of their youth when they decide to leave the city and survive 90 days in the wild woods of Sweden.

Category: Documentary, Short

8.9 IMDB Rating 396 Views
Vita myror 1969

Bo Bjelfvenstam and the cinematographer Jörgen Persson traveled to Tanzania and met Swedish Pentecostal missionaries and other Europeans who worked there. The film's title is taken from a quote by the African writer Okot p'Bitck: "Europeans are swarming into our lands swarming with white ants."

Category: Documentary, Short

Stars: Bo Bjelfvenstam, Keckan Bengtström, Daisy Grönqvist

422 Views
Hemligheten 2009

Carl-Ivar Nilsson became a Swedish favorite actor in the series "Hem till byn", but privately he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family as late as 1985.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Carl-Ivar Nilsson, Pontus Hjorthén, Lennart Hjulström

7.0 IMDB Rating 533 Views
Vatten, tro, champagne 1965

Documentary about the French spa town Le Mont-Dore, where people pilgrim to swim in and drink of the alleged holy water.

Category: Documentary, Short

Stars: Sven Stolpe

326 Views
After Hitler 2016

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Will Johnson, Vincent Lindon, Georgi Zhukov

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,635 Views
Pappa och kalla kriget 2021

50 Swedish fighter pilots died, not in war but in peace. Sweden had the fourth largest air force in the world and the fighter pilots are ordered to fly hard to defend our freedom. But was it worth it?

Category: Documentary

8.0 IMDB Rating 439 Views
Oscar och Greta och huset de byggde 2017

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he had never seen.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Tom Alandh, Heleen Rebel

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,763 Views