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Set in 790AD, "Vikingane" features the daily challenges of people living in a small Viking village, from power struggle, brother rivalry, gender equality, to betrayal and friendship. "It's the story of people from our time, but living during the Viking era. Of course everyday choices have far more dramatic consequences and that makes for great comedy material.

The show follows New York mobster Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program after ratting on his boss.

From the top of their glass skyscraper, Adam, William, Henrik, and Jeppe feel like they rule Oslo's financial empire. But behind the dazzling veneer, these 30-somethings who have already got it all are desperately trying to escape their daily lives filled with ever-more-demanding family obligations and professional expectations. A shocking tragi-comedy about the hidden side of Norway, based on real-life experiences.

The story of Eva, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life.

Atlantic Crossing is based on the incredible, true story of the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha's efforts to support her country during World War II. After a headlong flight from the Nazis, she was forced to part from her husband and cross the Atlantic Ocean to seek refuge in the United States. There, she soon found herself involved in a close relationship with the President of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

24 hours after returning to his home in Oslo following a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan, Erling Riser is given orders to kill an Afghan man on the street. When he discovers the orders were not sent by the Head of Intelligence he must find out who is sending them and why he is being used as a hitman. His wife no longer trusts him, and he cannot trust anyone himself, Erling finds himself in the middle, as both a target and hitman, of a complex killing game. Nobel places a dramatic conspiracy plot in the middle of Norway's war in Afghanistan and at the centre of the world's most famous humanitarian prize. Politics and social commentary are combined in this gripping thriller.

It's the summer of 1969 in the small coastal town of Stavanger, Northern Europe. International oil companies have been test drilling for years, but nothing has been found and they are in the process of leaving. Stavanger lives off fish, and the North Sea is emptying out. The town is in crisis. The night before Christmas 1969, Phillips Petroleum finds the largest sub sea oil basin in history. And everything is about to change.

Ravn, a respected physician, is desperately seeking a cure for his dying wife, Vilma. When the hospital stops her further treatment, Ravn continues working in secret. He is aided by the corrupt civil defence man Leif, a doomsday prepper and former patient of his. Deep underground, Ravn and Leif open an illegal clinic for treating off-the-grid patients. The clinic finances Ravn's research into a cure for Vilma, while Leif increases his position among the criminal and the paranoid who live outside the welfare state. As Ravn has to cross more and more ethical lines, he frequently clashes with Leif, but clings to the hope of bringing his beloved Vilma back. Will love prevail? Or will Leif's fantasy of society collapsing become a reality?

The series takes place on Granli in Oslo. It's about three very different families living in the same neighborhood. The family Jonas Kvåle and Maria Lerke, the family Pedersen and the family Kopperud.

In the north of Norway, a young girl disappears from an isolated religious community. Detective Hedda Gilbert returns to her place of birth where she is forced to work with special agent Dreyer. Each of them is fighting their own demons in this ambitious thriller with its stylish direction and haunting atmosphere.

Norwegian drama series in 6 parts. History of Struggle for heavy water unfolds during the prelude, the onset and the end of the 2nd World War. We follow the stories of those central in the fight about who gets first developed nuclear weapons.

When a young mother is responsible for the accidental death of her husband, she persuades the dead husbands identical twin to take his identity.

Car mechanic Genn-Tore, a car-loving guy know as GT, has charisma and self-confidence to be the small town's popular hunk. Until the day he is dumped by his girlfriend.

Petter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high - ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother's family.

This is a six-part dramatization about how the Norwegians stopped Hitler from building a nuclear weapon by sabotaging the factory in Rjukan, Norway that produced heavy water, which had the potential to create an atomic bomb. The situation is viewed from four perspectives: the Nazis', the Allies', the saboteurs', and the company's.

A war enthusiast, a spoiled brat, a female chauvinist and a white, multicultural rapper. These must protect Norway. They face challenges they have never had before in an environment where performance attitudes and anxiety are not taken into account.

Three young women seek love, success and fulfillment in Oslo, Norway.

The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour's celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway's first female Prime Minister in 1981.

Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.

A trainer leaves her successful women's football team to become the first female trainer of a Norwegian premier league men's team. She wages a hard fight against ingrained bias, as she struggles towards her dream. She is out to prove that, given the same qualifications, women are every bit as good as men.

Bæbs grows up among friends in the 90's growing gang mijlo in Oslo, and is quickly drawn into undesirable situations with major consequences.

This is the story of those who treated those wounded. About those who comforted and those trying to understand. This is the story of those who worked hard when Norway was hit by terrorism.

Three young adults with roots in four cultures try to navigate through adulthood with all the awkward situations, insecurities, uncomfortable everyday experiences and victories it entails.

This is the story of the urban police officer Salmander who, after somewhat accidentally killing his police horse in front of thousands of children, gets relocated to the location farthest north in Norway: Hellfjord.

After a near death experience, Bjarte Tjøstheim decides to quit the popular radio show "Radioresepsjonen", and to start a new and more meaningful life as a priest.