Svt Dokumentar Movies

For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then...

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but...

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. ...

The actor and director Gösta Ekman was one of Sweden's most popular artists. He was born 77 years ago straight into the Swedish acting elite. In...

The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working...

A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the...

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In...

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...

Mats Öberg, born 1971 in Umeå, Sweden, has been living in Stockholm for many years, where he moved when he entered the Royal Academy of...

He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors...

A documentary that follows two young women raising children and supporting drug habits through prostitution in Iran ruled by religious...

The Swedish elementary and secondary school is one of the world's most market liberal. How did we get there? Who took those decisions? This is the...

A film about an unusually stubborn man. Mikael Andersson was born without arms and legs. Today he is a strong, well-trained family man and lecturer...