Norway - Top documentary Films / Norske dokumentarfilmer

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.

Much as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool and Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in Berlevåg.

A ski documentary showcasing modern freeskiing, free riding and snowboarding.

In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.

Young film director Even Benestad tells the story of his own mother Espen Benestad who is a transgender woman and seeks her son's acceptance.

The story about the poor Polish Moritz Rabinowitz who fell in love with the town of Haugesund, Norway, and became a wealthy clothes salesman, and was deported by the Nazi regime when they took control over Norway.

Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.

USA vs AL-ARIAN is a close portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges leveled by the U.S. Government. The film shows a personal story of a family living in a society where fear of terrorism has resulted in increasing stigmatization and discrimination against Muslims.

The documentary is about the covert CIA drone war. Through voices on both sides of this new technology, the film reveals crucial information about the drone war in Pakistan and offers unique insights into the nature of drone warfare.

The acute man is a film about hope and despair. It is the story of idealism and arrogance of power, a story of friendship across borders and religions. But above all it is the story of a person who refuses to give in, a doctor who has a goal to work for. The film takes us on a journey that ranges from scenic trout fishing in North Norway, through a hectic schedule at the University Hospital of Tromso to the bomb rain in Gaza in 2009. For nearly 40 years, Mads Gilbert has been fighting to save lives and create a better world. He is known worldwide as The Gaza Doctor and has been holding more than 100 lectures at universities in North America.

The siblings Magnar and Oddny, are in their 70'ies still living together on a remote mountain generation farm. Here time has stood still.

In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. As their country verged on war, a group of brave students decided to meet their opponents for the first time.

The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

As a young Indian girl born outside caste, Thulasi is trying to box her way out of poverty, but the struggle for an independent life is hardest outside the ring.

Director Sigve Endresen follow the singer Kari Iveland, daughter of two missionaries, on her way to release her first solo album. Through her lyrics we understand the discomfort she has felt all her life, which almost lead to suicide.

When Monica was born the parent thought she was a boy., and called her Morten. Now she has have had a cosmetically and gender changing operations . This is all shown on camera in this documentary.

We meet several people who live and work along the coast of Norway. Regine, who buys her own fishing boat and hires her boyfriend as crew. Øystein, who wants to build a restaurant on an uninhabited island off the Nordland coast. Nils Olav, one of the last remaining builders of Oselvers. And Magnus, who has run an oyster farm for 70 years and couldn't imagine any other life.

A warm, charming and entertaining documentary about several first or second generation immigrants living in Oslo and Bergen. You will among others meet an immigrant on skis, an African woman living in Bergen who refuses to be buried any other place than her native Tanzania, a Norwegian army recruit from Sri Lanka, an Afghan business woman and a drug-addict of Norwegian-African heritage. Welcome Home flips your assumptions of immigrants upside-down whilst being a different take on the term 'home'.

Lars Kristian Gulbrandsen has made himself, his life and everything he is surrounded by into a living artwork. His abstract paintings are bought by some of the world's biggest galleries, but the local house wives and the bold fishermen see Lars Kristian as a nutcase, and view his paintings as meaningless dabs of colour and his house a chaotic garbage dump.

Plagued by depression, diabetes and alcoholism, and always searching for greater meaning-any meaning, Gunnar Hall Jensen travels to the spiritual promised land of many soul searches-India. It is there that he hits rock bottom, yet he soon emerges from the darkness with a new outlook on life.

The normal father Gunnar has everything, but still feels something's wrong, and starts to investigate why he feels empty when he really has got it all.

One Saturday night in 1996, Bjørn Granum's doorbell rings. Outside he finds a group of travelers who have been searching for him for 45 years.

Two good friends with Downs Syndrome live together and have many common interests. They are a well know couple in the city of Bergen.

This is the story of your greatest dream and worst nightmare. It's a story about visions and dreams, about sailing and wreckage. Natural Born Star is the story of Fred Robsahm.