This Is England '86 (Season 1)

This Is England '86 (2010) is a British drama miniseries you can watch online on iFILM. Picking up the story of Shane Meadows' acclaimed film, it jumps three years ahead and drops the familiar faces into the middle of the decade.

Shaun has just left school with nowhere to put himself; the old gang drifts back together, but childhood is over and everyone is nursing fresh bruises. The summer stretches out between the telly, the pub and broken promises, while something far darker builds under the everyday mess. Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham can turn a comic scene into a gut-punch in a single line.

Meadows films working-class England with neither nostalgia nor judgment — a country where Maradona has just knocked the national team out of the World Cup and unemployment runs past three million. Four episodes on Channel 4, a BAFTA winner, every bit as heavy as a feature. Stream all episodes of This Is England '86 online on iFILM.