Season 1

Deutschland (2015), Season 1 is a Cold War spy drama you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes that yank a 24-year-old East German border guard, Martin Rauch, out of his life and drop him behind enemy lines in 1983.

Given the cover name Moritz Stamm, he puts on a West German army uniform and lands a post aide to a NATO general. His brief: steal the secrets of Western military strategy. The catch is that everything across the border is alien — the supermarkets, the music, the unwritten rules, and a cast of people all hiding something. Martin learns to lie in real time, seduces the secretaries he is told to seduce, ferries packages across Berlin, and sinks deeper into a game he never chose. It all builds toward the NATO exercise Able Archer, which East German command mistakes for a genuine first strike — leaving Martin's hand close to the trigger of a nuclear war.

Siblings Anna and Jörg Winger anchor the season in a real 1983 war scare and score it with eighties pop instead of the usual espionage gloom. Brisk, witty, and smarter than it looks. Stream Deutschland Season 1 online on iFILM.