World Without End (Season 1)

World Without End (2012) is a historical drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Set in 14th-century Kingsbridge, it plays out as war with France and a sweeping sickness close in on England.

Two centuries after the great cathedral went up, the town runs on the scheming of crown, church, and merchant guilds. At its center is Caris (Charlotte Riley), a sharp young woman with a healer's instincts and a rebel's nerve — she tends the sick while the monks only pray, and she takes on the two great powers of her age, the Church and the Crown of Queen Isabella. The deep cast includes Miranda Richardson, Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin, and David Bradley. Its eight episodes adapt Ken Follett's sequel to The Pillars of the Earth.

The series doesn't flinch — torture, burnings, a plague that empties whole streets. This is grim medieval life stripped of any chivalric polish, where a village herbalist proves deadlier than any knight. Worth your time if you loved Pillars of the Earth or costume drama with real teeth. Stream every episode of World Without End online on iFILM.