Troy: Fall of a City (Season 1)

Troy: Fall of a City (2018) is the BBC and Netflix historical series you can watch online on iFILM. Across eight episodes it retells the Trojan War from inside the doomed city's royal household. It opens with Paris, a humble shepherd who turns out to be the lost son of Troy's king.

When Paris carries Helen away from Sparta and her husband Menelaus, one act of desire ignites a ten-year siege. A Greek armada masses on the beach while, behind the walls, the city grinds against itself — Priam's pride, Hecuba's dread, Hector's doomed courage. Louis Hunter plays Paris, Bella Dayne is Helen, and David Threlfall is the aging king who can see the end coming and cannot halt it. Here the gods meddle openly in mortal affairs, and a single divine whim decides who survives the night.

Creator David Farr drags Homer off the museum shelf and into the mud — full of politics, sweat and people instead of marble statues. The show takes real liberties with the familiar myth, which gives Iliad readers plenty to argue about. Stream every episode of Troy: Fall of a City (2018) online on iFILM.