The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman (2006) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM — the story of Graeme Obree, a Scottish amateur who broke the world one-hour cycling record on a bike he built himself using washing machine parts. Directed by Douglas McKinnon, with Jonny Lee Miller in the lead and Billy Boyd, Brian Cox and Laura Fraser in support.

Behind the record sat a far harder race. Obree had no coaching staff, no sponsors, and for years he kept a serious fight with depression entirely to himself. McKinnon doesn't shape this as a conventional underdog sports film — it's a portrait of stubborn private willpower in a sport that rewards the connected and the funded. Watch The Flying Scotsman (2006) online on iFILM.