Genre: Documentary
3413 content found
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 2022

The life and career of jazz musician Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, featuring original concert footage and insights from jazz icons.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Nanny Assis,Jon Batiste,Poogie Bell

8.0 IMDB Rating 1,307 Views
Music in Nazi Germany – The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz 2022

Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The ...

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Kathrin Ackermann, Thomas Ackermann

8.3 IMDB Rating 1,105 Views
Loving Highsmith 2022

Based on Patricia Highsmith's personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer's life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Annina Butterworth, Patricia Highsmith, Marijane Meaker

6.9 IMDB Rating 1,160 Views
Second Story Syndrome 2023

Known in Sweden as the untaught and unemployed outcast that amazed the cultural world with her original and well-written debut but even though she has achieved her childhood's princess dreams, it's not the happy ending of a fairy ...

Category: Documentary

Stars: Stina Stoor

1,307 Views
Kokvinnorna 2011

Milking cows by hand. Probably the last women in Sweden delivering milk.

Category: Documentary

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,430 Views
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

1,244 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

1,217 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 1,233 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

1,135 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 1,415 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 1,370 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

1,101 Views
Sophia Loren 2019

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Marlon Brando, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 1,462 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 1,441 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 4,830 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

1,033 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 1,222 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 1,695 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 1,366 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

1,550 Views