Moving images constitute a fantastic audiovisual cultural heritage spanning the entire 20th century. Through cooperation between Swedish Television (SVT) and the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images (SLBA), more than 60 years of newsreels and thousands of short films have been digitalized and collected in the database "Reel History" - in Swedish entitled "Journal Digital". In total there are 5.554 films - more than a thousand hours worth of Swedish history from the 20th century.

In this presentation on the web, one percent of the material is available for viewing. It may not sound much, but on the following web pages you will find more that 50 streamed films, some of them more than 20 minutes long, as well as a richly illustrated material and hundreds of background texts, introducing you to Swedish newsreel and documentary film history. The web presentation "Reel History" has been divided into ten themes - go to Film Themes.