The young teacher Ester hides her Sami identity to avoid being exposed to racism. After finding herself drawn to demonstrations against a big dam development in Alta, a personal journey out of the shame she has carried for so long begins.

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

During a period during the 16th and 18th centuries, Denmark, like Sweden, was involved in the slave trade across the Atlantic via its colonies. For Denmark, this part of history begins in 1671, when Jørgen Iversen became the first Danish governor of the Danish West Indies. And it was the pursuit of the desirable sugar that was the cause.

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.

A bizarre iron age grave has been uncovered in the United Kingdom, archaeologists expect that this site will help unlock the hidden story of the violent birth of Roman Britain.

Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses.

This documentary follows the life of the renowned American director, author of more than 150 works and winner of more Oscar awards than any other, and shed light on the significance of his most outstanding films.

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940

Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

During World War II, Russian writers gathered around the famous authors and war correspondents Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman documented the destruction of the Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis, in an unpub...

This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

There was a time when clothes were made in Sweden. The industry had its heart in the Sjuhärad region, and was largely made up of women. Today, the Swedish textile industry is virtually wiped out.

On the West Coast on Finland in nineteenth-century Ostrobothnia. Esko is the leader of a local gang of troublemakers and an uneven battle ensues over the estate, honor a father's last wishes.

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead.

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.