SWEDEN, NORWAY, DENMARK
The Vikings, in England the House of Denmark, 1013-1042:
X The Vikings (1958) -- the scourge of Ireland and England/Scotland as well as elsewhere
Valhalla Rising (2009) -- year 1000 A.D., discovery of the new world
Gil Invasori (d'annunzio or The Invaders) (1961) -- 8th-9th century Vikings attack Britain
The Norseman (1978) -- 11th century Viking prince sailed all the way to North America in search of his lost father
The Viking Sagas (1995) -- battles for the chieftainship in Viking Iceland
X A Viking Saga (2008) -- Viking story
X White Viking (1998) -- continuation of the Icelandic Sagas around 1,000 AD and the reign of King Olaf, who holds the wife of Askur hostage ($70)
The Long Ships (1964) -- Vikings against the Moors in search of a huge all gold bell
L’ Ultimo dei Vikinghi (The Last Viking ) (1961) -- Norwegian Vikings try to overthrow the tyrant Sveno
Den sidste Viking (The Last Viking) (1997) -- Danish movie from boy Harald's perspective about a mad king out to confiscate all the ships of his village
Thirteenth Warrior (1999) -- 10th century Arab shocked by Viking behavior in Russia
X Utlaginn (The Outlaw) (1981) – an Icelandic film about and accurately depicting the peoples involved in a Viking blood feud (based on the Icelanders' Sagas called the Gísla saga)
X Den rde kappe (Red Mantle) (1967) – Icelandic Viking saga
X I Tartari (The Tartars) (1961) -- after the death of his brother Togrul in a battle with the Slavs, Burundai becomes the Tartar leader ; Vikings capture Togrul's daughter
X Fru Inger til strt (Lady Inger of Ostrat) (1975) -- 1528, Norwegian noble woman seeking independence for the nation in the time of the Kalmar Union (1396-1537) involving Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Karin Mansdotter (1954) – 1550–1612, started as mistress and ended as Swedish Queen to Eric XIV (reign 1560-1568)
X Queen Christina (1933) -- 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden; Greta Garbo
The Abdication (1974) – Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates; what happened to Queen Christina when she converted to Catholicism
Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) (1943) -- accusations of witchcraft in a 17th c. Danish village
X Snapphanar (Scanian Guerilla ) (1941) – Scanian War, 1676-1679, between Sweden and Denmark
X Karl XII (1925) -- Charles XII of Sweden (reigned 1697-1718); Great Northern War (1700-1721)
X Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) -- 1709 during war between Russian and Sweden (The Great Northern War, 1700-1721) -- (currently unavailable)
X Epitaph für einen König (1969) – Epitaph for a King; King Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)
X Gustav III (1974) – assassination of Sweden’s King Gustav III (ruled 1771-1792)
X Lockfgeln (The Decoy) (1971) – on his death-bed, a father asks his son to kill King Gustav III
Gustav III's äktenskap (The Marriage of Gustav III) (2001) – Gustav III of Sweden, nine years into his marriage
X Kustaa III (1964) – Finnish film, Strindberg play adaptation; Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-1792) when Finland was part of Sweden
X Behöriga äga ej tillträde (1988) – 1890s Sweden
X General von Döbeln (1942) -- Swedish general who fought in the Russian War, Finnish War and Second War Against Napoleon
X Le destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) (1942) – Désirée Clary once the fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte and later Queen of Sweden & Norway as wife of King Charles XIV John
Desiree (1954) -- the future queen and king of Sweden and Napoleon; a seamstress loves Napoleon, but his marriage to aristocrat Josephine spoils her dreams
X The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008) – religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian Saami village
Potop (The Deluge) (1975) -- second part of the trilogy; Swedish army invades Poland and a warrior fights for the heart of Olenka
Desiree (1954) -- the future queen and king of Sweden and Napoleon
The Shaping of the Western World. Bismarck: Germany from Blood and Iron (2008) -- a docudrama about Otto von Bismarck who was the most responsible man in uniting Germany into a single nation; Bismarck grabs Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark in order to help unite Germans into one united nation
Jim Thorpe -- native American star of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden
X Child of Mine (2005) -- Swedish film; over 70,000 Finnish war children sent to Sweden, Norway and Denmark; one boy's story in Sweden
Invasion of Norway, April 9, 1940
The Last Lieutenant (1993) -- light resistance to the Nazi invasion of Norway
Hamsun (1997) -- Norwegian Nobel Laureate and German invasion of Norway
X Edge of Darkness (1943) -- underground movement in Norway during the Nazi takeover (starring Errol Flynn) -- (not yet available)
Heroes of Telemark (1965) -- Norwegian resistance tries to stop the Nazis from producing an atomic bomb component (with Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris)
X Max Manus (2008) -- true story of key player in the Norwegian Resistance -- ($32)
X Ni Liv (Nine Lives) (1957) -- about Jan Baalsrud, a member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II ($26)
X Commandoes Strike at Dawn (1942) -- Norwegian resistance ($35)
Svik (Betrayal) (2009) -- a Norwegian woman works for the Resistance to German occupation of her country and has to deal with corrupt Norwegian businessmen and a corrupt German officer, among other matters
The Day Will Dawn (The Avengers) (1942) -- a foreign correspondent heads to Norway after Hitler's invasion of Poland and his boat is attacked by a German U-boat; he tells the British navy but no one believes him
Flammen & Citronen (Flame and Citron) (2008)-- Danish Resistance to German occupation
X I slik en natt (It Happened One Night) (1958) – a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden
X A Day in October (1992) -- Danish resistance helps 7,200 Danish Jews escape to Sweden
God Afton, Herr Wallenberg (Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg) (1990) -- Swedish national saves Hungarian Jews
X Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (2 DVD set) -- the hero saving Jews
The Black Pimpernel (2007) -- after the military coupe in Chile, the Swedish ambassador to Chile saves more than 1,300 lives by moving them to Sweden
X Zozo (2005) -- during the Lebanese civil war, a Lebanese boy gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden
Flugten (The Escape) (2009) -- female Danish journalist taken hostage in Afghanistan and the terror group threatens to kill her if Denmark does not remove its troops from Afghanistan
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