Nils Gaup

A young Norwegian boy in 1850's England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates. (imdb)

Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the families teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Lapps whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track... (imdb)

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norweigian village. (imdb)

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery. (imdb)

A prominent judge, his wife, her ex-lover, their neighbor and a dead body that complicates their lives. This is the movie that was later remade with Harvey Keitel and Cameron Diaz. (imdb.com)

Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800's. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. (imdb)

Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas star. (imdb)

Dissatisfied with his old sneakers a boy takes the "Just do it" commercial seriously and steals a pair of new shoes.

In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country's history.

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners. (imdb)