Ingvar Carlsson

Sweden's Olympic bid was shaken in 1997 by a series of fires and bombings. A man was arrested, but many questions surrounding the numerous crimes remain.

A behind the scenes look at a number of Sweden's party leaders and their speechwriters. Features exclusive insight into how political speeches are crafted to convince voters.

550 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?

Birgitta Dahl was involved in pushing through several of the gender equality reforms that we take for granted today: day care for all, general parental insurance, a ban on hitting children and a ban on rape within marriage.

In the 1980s, Säpo agent Jan-Henrik Barrling investigated the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. He was dismissed from Säpo after becoming embroiled in a political scandal linked to Sweden’s Minister of Justice—the so-called Ebbe Carlsson affair. He was also accused of going behind the prosecutors' backs. For all these years, Jan-Henrik Barrling has been bound by a duty of confidentiality. Now, for the first time, he speaks about his work on the Palme murder case and about the wiretapping of a Soviet diplomat and spy—a recording that remains classified to this day.

Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.

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?

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.

A film about the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

A film about Sweden's most read author Per Anders Fogelström. And it follows his life from his turbulent childhood, the successes with the novels about the City of My Dreams and his lifelong riddle about his father's sudden disappearance.

A documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme

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On February 28, 1986, Palme was killed by a shot to the back, at very close range. His wife, Lisbet, was wounded by a second shot. There were several witnesses to the assassination, but none of them got a good look at the gunman.

Legendary Swedish artist Lill-Babs celebrates 40 years as an artist with a grand evening full of performances and congratulations from some of the people she has crossed paths with over the decades.

A collage of voices and film clips with Olof Palme that illuminates a number of central themes in his ideological thinking. In the film, close friends and colleagues talk about Olof Palme and comment on his political vision.

Behind the stage action. Three ballet girls. A janitor using rough manners to approach the girls, without success. He gets advice from a colleague to treat the girls with more respect.

Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But one day he is fired from his work after twenty years of loyal service. Now he is prepared to do anything to get it back...

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.