Alsking pa vift (1964) Swedish film

Bjorn Ulvaeus  and the Hootenanny's appeared in this Swedish comedy as singers..ABBF record service has this movie available  on VHS tape...

ÅSA -NISSE I RAKETFROM (1966) Swedish film

Bjorn Ulvaeus  and the Hootenanny's appeared in this August 1966 movie. They sang one song- "Vid Roines Strand" ..There was actually a whole series of  ÅSA -NISSE movies.

HABARI SAFARI-A never finished 1967 movie self-produced by Benny's 1960's group -the Hep Stars .It was hoped that a Hep Stars trip to Africa and a a couple of weeks in a film studio would produce enough suitable material for a movie-it only ended putting the Hep Stars deeper in the hole financially. One Hep Stars song emerged from the project the African style folk single "Malaika".. Remarkably,  Lasse Hallstrom, later the  director of ABBA -The movie , worked a little  on this particular project-though not as a director...

Another film in the amazing Åsa-Nisse saga, This film was directed by Arne stivell. Benny Andersson and the Hep Stars appeared in this this film in two scenes. they performed two songs "It's Been A Long Long Time" and "Sagan om lilla Sofi".

The Langugage of Love ("Kärlekens språk") 1969. Swedish film

This Swedish sex documentary features the B&B song 'Livet Går Sin Gång' (The Way Of Life)

SEDUCTION OF INGA (known in Swedish as Någon att älska ) 1971 Swedish/American film

Bjorn and Benny wrote some music in late 1969 for this soft-porn film that was not released till 1971. The film was directed by Joseph W. Sarno. The film was a Swedish/American production. The hard-to find Bjorn and Benny track "Inga Theme" was the main instrumental theme  used. "She's My Kind of Girl" is also featured. Although this movie can be obained on DVD  it's not really worth the effort. The DVD contains a recently made video of BB's "Inga Theme".... The movie stars Marie Liljedahl as Inga . The DVD supposedly includes the other film in this series  as well...

ABBA Music Show 1&2 1981 International video Out of print

The first and second collection of official ABBA video clips combined into one video, this content was also released as laserdisc listed above and under the title ABBA-THE VIDEO HITS... and ABBA the Tenth Anniversary Special..(see track listing below)

ABBA -ABBA 1981 Internationally released VHS video  , out of print.

The cover of  this features ABBA in bad pastel clothes. One of the early full length VHS collections that compiled 14 of ABBA's ground breaking music videos. This collection features mainly videos from 1976-1979. Most of the videos were directed by the soon-to-be internationally known Swedish film director, Lasse Hallestrom. ABBA was one of the first groups to regularly put out videos to promote their singles.

The Songs are the same as featured on MUSIC SHOW 1&2, MCA DISCOVISION and ABBA...

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! * Knowing Me, Knowing You- * Take A Chance On Me- * Money, Money, Money *The Name of the Game * Eagle *Voulez-Vous

*On and On and On *One Man , One Woman *Summer Night City- * Dancing Queen- * Does Your Mother Know *The Winner Takes It All * Thank You For The Music

ABBA The Movie 1982 Video release International release...

The Movie was released as a film in late 1977 it first came out on Video in some territories in 1982, and has been in and out of print until it's release on DVD in 2005 ...It was never widely available in the US on VHS..

The first collection compiling later ABBA's later official videos from the 1980's. Also released with the title of  ABBA AGAIN ....and in an expanded version as MORE VIDEO HITS...

Raskenstam (1983) Swedish film Available on VHS

Directed , cowritten and featuring Gunnar Hellström , this Swedish langugage comedy is notable for featuring Agnetha Faltskog playing a character called Lisa Mattson. Agnetha performs well and this is certainly ,one of the better ABBA related films.

Christine American movie 1983 . International release.  
ABBA's song "Name of the Game" supposedly is played somewhere in the background in this Stephen King horror flick..The song is not on the movie soundtrack Cd.

ABBA- in Concert 1984. International release.  This VHS version is Out of print...Later released on DVD in expanded version in 2004...
Abba's 1979 concert tour Tv special Directed by: Urban Lasson
This is the  Swedish release on Videotape..(see DVD below for complete review).

ABBA 1974-1982 A Virgin Video Music Biography 1984 European VHS and Laserdisc Out of print

Has 18  edited videos and tv performances , though no narrator...

 ABBA AGAIN -ABBA (1984) US video Out of print.

A short 35 minute (8 song) sequel to the 1980 ABBA video collection. This features some of ABBA's 1980's videos as well as a couple of solo videos by Agnetha and Frida. This collection features "The Day Before You Came" one of the few ABBA videos with a story line. This has the same content as  ABBA Music Show 3.

Super Trouper/ Happy New Year/ Head over Heels /When All Is Said and Done/The Day Before You Came/Under Attack /The Heat Is On (Agnetha) /I know There is Something Going On (Frida)

JOKERFEJS(1984) Swedish film  Not available on Video
This is another film that features Frida in a small part ,  The movie was Directed by Peter Wester. 

Chess Moves (1985) Internationally released VHS video. Out of print..

Official videos of five key songs from the original Chess album.It all runs only 25 minutes but the videos are good. Features Elaine Paige and Murray Head. . Videos directed by David G. Hillier, Ken Warwick

There is also a VHS tape called Lyrics by Tim Rice that has 3 songs  from Chess though I have not seen it...that videos also includes song from other Tim Rice musicals...

One Night In Bangkok/ Nobody's Side /The aribiter/ I know Him So well / Pity the child

P&B 1985 Swedish film not available on video

Agnetha sang the title song P&B for this obscure movie. The track apppeared as a b-side and was finally made available on CD with the 2005 remaster of Eyes of A Woman.

The Story Of ABBA 1986 British VHS  Out of print

An actual documentary made for Dutch TV, that was released in the UK which includes the four pre-ABBA TV appearences later used for the THANK YOU ABBA video...Baby, Those Are The Rules (Hootenanny Singers) Att älska i varens tid (Frida) Sunny Girl (The Hep Stars) and Nu skall vi opp, opp, opp (Agnetha)

Also includes excerpts from 26 ABBA videos

40. ABBA In Concert DVD edition International release. March 2004

This is a documentary of the 1979 ABBA tour of North America & Europe directed by Swedish TV pro -Urban Lasson. It mostly features musical segments from the concerts, but also documents life on the road for ABBA as well as a seemingly endless series of segments with roller skaters.....It has been shown before on TV (back in 1980) and been out on video, but had not been available recently... The main body of the original TV special included twelve songs- all but one of which could found in original studio versions on either the Greatest Hits Volume 2 or Voulez-Vous. Some Fans have objected that the performances of the songs are edited-but while not complete most the song segments are relativley long. Apparently, the camera did not actually film complete shows-so in many cases the songs were not filmed in their entirety. A few of the songs benefit from live presentation notably -"Summer Night City" and "I Have A dream" wheras some of ABBA's best songs -"Waterloo", "Dancing Queen" , and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" do not come off as well in live performances. .. This DVD new version features two songs not included on the original home video-The Way Old Friends Do and Thank You For The Music, as well as the full version of "I have A Dream" which was widely used previously as the official promo clip for that song.../. "The Way Old Friends DO" is easily the best moment of the film and seems strange that if was left out of some of the 1979-1980 versions of the TV special as,well on off the original home video released in 1980. This performance orginates from 1979 ABBA's concerts' at London's Wembley Stadium in one of the last important concert of their careers..(though they did not know it at time.) The song features Benny on accordion and the all the group singing. It almost borders on spontaniety, almost seems genuinely emotional , both of which were qualities in short supply for ABBA when performing live...At one point Lasson chooses a great back shot of the group which really gives one a sense that yes, we are looking at music legends.... I think that in general that Lasson did a good job on this special.. Some listeners have complained about the sound quality, which I cant comment on because i have not heard the DVD in 5.1 sound but I didnt really notice bad sound quality... The DVD features informative Interviews with ABBA's tour promoter, Thomas Johannson, and the film's director Urban Lasson and a Fully illustrated booklet with an essay by Carl Magnum Palm.. . This is the first time this title has been released on DVD.

ABBA-Dancing Queen DVD 2004* German-Dutch release

A dvd single with ABBA's biggest hitDancing Queen (1992 version)Waterloo (original version) Takes It All (original version) Trailer for other ABBA DVD's...

ABBA-Waterloo DVD 45 2004 Waterloo (original version) German-Dutch release

A dvd single with ABBA's first worldwide hit includes 4 tracks Waterloo (Original video) Waterloo BBC Eurovision footage (live)Waterloo - SVT Melodifestivalen video) Ring Ring (video) Thank You For The Music (video). Similiar to DVD issued as part of the special Waterloo CD/DVD ..

ABBA- Waterloo 30th anniversary edition -2004 CD/DVD set

A new edition of this album with five bonus tracks and a bonus DVD, and a 20 page booklet...Great to have perhaps, though one grows tired of these constant reissues of the same albums, each time with some small new thing... The bonus tracks include all four language versions of "Waterloo" as well as the 1974 US remix of "Ring Ring". The bonus DVD has four TV performances including the Waterloo as perfomed at the Eurovision song contest.

DVD Tracks-Waterloo (Eurovision Song Contest, BBC)/ Waterloo (Melodifestivalen, SVT)/ Honey, Honey (Star Parade, ZDF) /Hasta Mañana (Señoras y Señores, RTVE)

ABBA-ABBA CD/DVD version Spring 2004

This is essentially the remaster CD with a bonus DVD. Like the Waterloo 30th Anniversary edition, this has a bonus DVD , but annoyingly the videos found on the DVD are previously released.

DVD contains; Mamma Mia, S.O.S., I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

ABBA-Arrival CD'DVD version Spring 2004

This is essentially the remastered CD with a bonus DVD. Like the Waterloo 30th Anniversary edition, this has a bonus DVD , but unfortunately the videos found on the DVD are previously released.

DVD contains; Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Money, Money, Money

ABBA-The Definitive Collection Sound + Vision Deluxe 2CD/1DVD International release Spring 2004

This combines the two audio CD's of the Definitive  collection with the one DVD video disc..This is not available in all territories, your mileage may vary....

Various Artists- "20th Century Masters: Ladies of the 80s". American DVD June 2004

Supposedly includes (for the first time on DVD) Frida's 1982 video to ,"I Know There's Something Going On"Also featured are such music legends  as Swing Out Sister, Vanessa Williams ,Tiffany and Pebbles.

ABBA-Our Last Video- July 2004 International DVD/video release

ABBA thought to have some minor reunion to mark the 30th anniversary of their Eurovision breakthough. A near reunion nearly occured at the fifth anniversary performance of Mammia Mia in London's West End. It was hoped that Agnetha might induced to come out of hiding due to the need to promote her album. Instead only Bjorn , Benny and Frida showed up, on stage in a semi-reunion. Frida had attended performances before but had never gotten up on stage with B&B before....

Luckily, all  four members of ABBA finally agreed to appear briefly and separately in a short but clever and entertaining video clip broadcast during the 2004 Eurovision song contest..The video features ABBA puppets and ABBA song references, The DVD  features the video , a making of the video segment, and some of the full original ABBA videos that were mentioned in the "OUR FINAL VIDEO." The video is cute and clever but it does seem almost like ABBA should have not bothered to tease us with such a limited reunion....

DVD Contains forty minutes of exciting videos-ooh what a a bargain....

1. The Last Video
2. Take A Chance On Me
3. Dancing Queen
4. Waterloo
5. The Winner Takes It All
6. The Making Of The Last Video
7. Picture Gallery

ABBA- SUPER TROUPERS documentary International Release September 2004 The thing is subtitled " A Celebratory Film from Waterloo to MAMMA MIA! 30 years of music" !!!!!!!!

A fascinating TV documentary of ABBA narrated by record producer Pete Waterman which includes material about Mamma Mia fifth anniversary ... Much of the material is rehashed from the THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL documentary , it uses some of the same interviews created for that...though instead of segments about Mamma Mia's  1999 premiere we get material about three ABBA members appearing at the fifth anniversary of MAMMA MIA...ABBA's history is told in a rather haphazard, and incomplete way, but this video does offer lots of up close and personal moments with all four ABBA members including new interviews with Bjorn, Frida and most amazingly Agnetha who speaks  in both English and Swedish... Chapter titles follow...This documentary   is a little too  heavy on clips that be found on other ABBA DVD's...

Bonus chapters  MAMMA MIA! 5th Anniversary Gala Special Finale/Interviews with Björn Ulvaeus/ Interviews with Anni-Frid Ruess

OTHER VIEWS from J.Stevens on AMAZON.com

" The biggest problem with the documentary is Pete Waterman, who provides commentary/narration and comes off like an overbearing, perhaps inebriated, relative who's far too loud and won't shut up".

Jon Lord: Beyond the Notes -December 2004 German DVD

Ex-Deep Purple member Lord plays keyboards and is joined in his merriment by various other folks. Frida sings one song "The Sun Will Shine Again" though for some reason she lip-synched the performance, she does talk live, though...The song is found also on the Beyond the Notes CD

Vinnare och förlorare Swedish movie January 2005

A Swedish comedy directed by Kjell Sundvall that stars Daniel Gustavsson.

For some reason, This movie features Frida's 1971 Swedish version of
“Can't Take My Eyes Off of  You”...

ABBA-THE MOVIE- 2DVD set September 2005 release , Also released in single DVD version. This will be playable on Pal and NCPS.

Finally a re-release of ABBA-The Movie. ABBA's 1977 cinema theatre release. It had never been  released on DVD .Prior to 2005 the movie had also   been out of print on VHS.

 The Movie (if you didn't know) is largely a concert film with an amusing if thin story about a Australian DJ trying to interview ABBA. The film is directed by Lasse Hallström.  Lasse was the  director of  most of ABBA's videos and would later go on to direct My Life is a Dog, Cider House Rules and many other films.
 
There are two versions of the movie.The single dvd version has no extras. The 2 DVD version has the film on one disc and bonus features on the second disc. The bonus features are an interview about the film with Lasse Hallström, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson,  the original ABBA - The Movie trailers; an ABBA - The Album TV commercial and a  picture gallery. Apparently, there were no live outtakes available. Fan experts complain that there  is more material that could have be included , for example more documentary material about the Australian tour...

American fans had to wait for a   a copy since apparently the DVD release in the Usa  was delayed due to a legal dispute between Universal and Warner over who has the right to issue the DVD...Warner had tried to release ABBA-The movie on DVD in the USA,but Universal had objected....

ABBA-The Complete Studio Recordings 9CD/2DVD Planned Release November 7, 2005

Following the example of last year's Japanese box set, Polar /Universal have put together a new "complete' box set.This is the first internationally released box set to compile all of ABBA's studio albums...
The audio component features most of ABBA's released recordings including all eight studio albums, b-sides, foreign language recordings, most alternate mixes as well as the rarities that were released after ABBA broke up... The set has two tracks new to Cd- the mono mix of "ON and On And On" previously heard only on videos, and alternative mix of Waterloo...This set is the first to include Spanish versions as bonus tracks on every one of the eight studio albums.
The major exclusion here is of course, ABBA's live album and the half or dozen other officially released  live tracks..But they are not "STUDIO' recordings. 
Naturally,  unreleased studio recordings (like the full version of "Just Like That " or "Nationsang' ) have been not included here either.. Nor does one find private releases like "Sang to Gorel', "Fanfare for a  Ice Hockey Championship".
The DVD set features basically a repackaged version of THE DEFINITIVE CollectionDVD set  on the first  DVD.  the  recent "OUR LAST VIDEO' puppet video is included as a bonus. The DVD's in this release apparently are being made in  a NTSC format that is playable in region 0...

A history of ABBA originally found on the ABBA GOLD DVD  and a short version of the 1981 DICK CAVETT TV special concert is on the second DVD.
There have been complaints from fans that the Dick Cavett segment only has five of the originally aired nine songs-Supposedly, they can not  find the other four songs in the Swedish Tv archives.
Annoyingly, this will be llimited edition release...So it wont be around forever...

DVD1: THE VIDEOS
1. Waterloo
2. Ring Ring
3. Mamma Mia
4. SOS
5. Bang-A-Boomerang
6. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
7. Fernando
8. Dancing Queen
9. Money, Money, Money
10. Knowing Me, Knowing You
11. That's Me
12. The Name Of The Game
13. Take A Chance On Me
14. Eagle
15. One Man, One Woman
16. Thank You For The Music
17. Summer Night City
18. Chiquitita
19. Does Your Mother Know
20. Voulez-Vous
21. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
22. I Have A Dream
23. On And On And On
24. The Winner Takes It All
25. Super Trouper
26. Happy New Year
27. Lay All Your Love On Me
28. When All Is Said And Done
29. One Of Us
30. Head Over Heels
31. The Day Before You Came
32. Under Attack

BONUS VIDEOS
1. Estoy Soñando
2. Felicidad
3. No Hay A Quien Culpar
4. Dancing Queen (1992 Version)
5. The Last Video

DVD2: THE HISTORY + LIVE IN APRIL 1981

The History: documentary (originally appeared on ABBA GOLD DVD)

Live In April 1981: selections from ABBA's final live concert, originally broadcast as part of the television special Dick Cavett Meets ABBA.

LIVE IN APRIL 1981
1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
2. Super Trouper
3. Two For The Price Of One
4. Slipping Through My Fingers
5. On And On and On

Frida -4XCD 1XDVD Box Set Late 2005 Swedish CD/DVD set

Here is a  box set of Frida's three 2005 remastered- albums (Frida Ensam, Something's Going on, and Shine)., as well Djupa Andetag... plus a DVD of video material...

Nice to have I suppose, but a real box set with rarities would be more far interesting... THE DVD IS ALSO AVAILABLE SEPARATELY...

VIDEOS included  

Songs included  on DVD

- En ledig dag SVT Hylands Hörna)
- My man (SVT charity Show)
- Just one of those things (SVT charity Show)
- Mad about the boy (SVT charity Show)
- Kalle pa spangen (SVT "När Stenkakan Slog")
I min blommiga bla krinolin (SVT "När Stenkakan Slog")
- Att älska i varens tid (SVT "När Stenkakan Slog")
-Min Soldat (SVT "När Stenkakan Slog")
- Söderhavets Sang (SVT "När Stenkakan Slog")
- Baby Love - Bäbi Läv (SVT "Charlie Norman Show")
- Gitarzan Gitarzan (SVT Skansen w. Lars Berghagen as Tarzan)
- Why did it have to me Me (ABBA - The Movie)
- Fernando Me (ABBA - The Movie)

-I know There`s Something Going On"
- Let`s get the show on the road (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Can`t by me love (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Cry me a river (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Got to get you into my life(SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Aquarious (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Words of love (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Fire and ice (SVT "Lite Grand I Örat")
- Here we`ll stay (Official Video)
- I see red ( Official Video)
- Something`s going on ( Official Video)-Shine (Official Video)
To turn the stone (Official Video)
-Sa länge vi har varann (Official Video with Ratata)
- Twist in the dark (Official Video)
- Come to me (I am woman) SVT Razzel )
- Heart of the country \(SVT Razzel )-One little lie(SVT Glädjehuset)
- Även en blomma (Official Video)
- Älska mig alltid (sverige Sovjet)
- Ögonen (SVT Frida - Mitt I Livet)
- The Sun Will Shine Again ("Ja Ma hon leva" with Jon Lord)
- Dancing Queen (SVT Queen Silvia's Birthdaywith The Real Group)

ABBA In Japan – Universal, DVD October 26, 2009 international release

This DVD features ABBA’s adventures in Japan in 1978 and 1980. The  main section  of the release is “ABBA Special”, a television special  filmed when the group visited Japan in November 1978. Unlike most specials of this kind the DVD  has been resembled from unedited materials meaning that the DVD features more of the actual filmed performances.

The DVD comes with two bonus sections. The package  features  a illustrated booklet with an essay  by Carl Magnus Palm.

ABBA In Japan  2 disc limited edition. October 26, 2009 international release

The first disc is the same as the one disc version, the second disc features a rare behind the scenes documentary from ABBA’s concert tour in March 1980, as well as some photo galleries. The packaging  features illustrated booklet with essay by  Carl Magnus Palm. The two disc version features a sticker and three ABBA photo cards