Invisible Heroes(2019)

Invisible Heroes is a series about Finnish diplomats who risked everything to save lives during Chile's 1973 military coup. When General Augusto Pinochet's junta seized power, diplomats Tapani Brotherus, Ilkka Jaamala, and Tapani's wife Lysa worked in secret to smuggle over 2,000 left-wing Chileans to safety. Operating without official government backing, they forged documents, arranged safe passage, and sheltered refugees while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam became the public face of resistance—backed by Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme. The series chronicles how ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances became unlikely heroes, defying their own governments to protect the persecuted from a brutal regime. It's a gripping true story of courage, moral conviction, and the cost of doing what's right when the world looked away.