M*A*S*H (Seasons 1–11)

M*A*S*H (1972–1983) is a wartime comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. It is set at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, parked a few miles from the front lines of the Korean War. The surgeons patch up the wounded as planes scream overhead, and they survive the horror the only way they can: with relentless gallows humor.

At the heart of it is Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda — a gifted surgeon, a wisecrack machine, and a one-man rebellion against army discipline. The camp around him keeps shifting: easygoing B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), gentle Father Mulcahy, head nurse Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Corporal Radar, who hears orders before they are given, and Corporal Klinger, who spends years in dresses hoping for a discharge. The operating room, the still-brewed gin, the tent they call the Swamp — this is war stripped of any parade-ground gloss.

The show ran eleven seasons on CBS, lasting nearly three times longer than the conflict it portrayed. Its finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," drew one of the largest television audiences in U.S. history. The laughs always sit right next to the cost of a human life, which is why people still hold it close. Stream every season of M*A*S*H online on iFILM.