Archangel (Season 1)

Archangel (2005) is a British miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jon Jones and starring Daniel Craig. Adapted from Robert Harris's 1998 novel, it follows Oxford historian Fluke Kelso, in Moscow for an archive conference, when an elderly former KGB bodyguard shows up at his hotel with a claim: on the night Stalin died, he buried the Soviet leader's private diary on orders from Beria.

The trail takes Kelso north to Arkhangelsk, where what he finds is larger and stranger than any Cold War secret. Craig plays him as a man in over his head — scraggly, ambitious, running on instinct — a year before Casino Royale made him a household name. Ekaterina Rednikova and Gabriel Macht round out a cast that keeps the tension grounded. For political thrillers that use Soviet history as more than wallpaper, this one earns its place. Stream Archangel (2005) online on iFILM.