Poldark (Seasons 1–5)

Poldark (2015) is a BBC One period drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark, a soldier who limps home from the American Revolutionary War only to find the estate in ruins, the mine shuttered and his sweetheart engaged to his own cousin.

Cornwall, 1783. Ross has nothing but debts, a crumbling manor and a stubborn streak wide enough to fill a tin shaft. He decides to reopen the mine, take on the local gentry and start over — and then Demelza walks into his life. Eleanor Tomlinson and Heida Reed co-star across the show's five seasons, which ran through 2019.

What makes Poldark worth the time is its refusal to romanticise the past: the poverty, the illness and the rigid class divide are as present as the cliff-top scenery. A costume drama with actual stakes. Stream all seasons of Poldark online on iFILM.