Movies: Hans Villius

In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials....

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem...

Martin Svensson was an evil and brutal man that drifted around in Skåne with his family in the beginning of the 20th century....

A film about Alfred Nobel....

A documentary that tells the history of Sweden through the eyes of the people and showing their living conditions for the past 1000 years....

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Swe...

About the Siemens Geheimschreiber - G printer - a crypto machine that Hitler's engineers designed in the 30's. The mathematician Arne Beurling at Uppsala University revealed the G-printer's secret....

"He who is not with us - Sweden in the Cold War" - During the post-war period, the Nordic countries adapted their foreign policy to the prevailing political situation. Sweden officially balanced its foreign policy between the two great powers of the ...

In the fall of 1944, four ships sailed out of Finnish ports and headed west. On board were not only the core group of Finnish intelligence, but also hundreds of boxes of top-secret material on the Soviet military, as well as technical equipment for a...

Beginning at Bohu's fortress, Hans Villius guides viewers through Norway, a country whose history has often coincided with ours. It is a story not only of the death of Charles XII and Carolines in a blizzard on their way to disaster, but also of the ...

"A voice from the past: a program about the explorer and politician Sven Hedin (1865-1952)" - based on his own statements and writings. Takes us through expeditions in Asia, Olympic Games in Stockholm and Berlin, two world wars, and a Swedish politic...