Dad's Army

Dad's Army (1971) is the British wartime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Norman Cohen directed this big-screen spin-off of the beloved BBC sitcom, following a seaside Home Guard unit bracing for a German invasion that may never come.

Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) drills his ragtag squad of volunteers with deadly seriousness — a bank clerk, a butcher, a doddery pensioner and a fresh-faced teenager among them. None has fired a shot in anger, yet every one of them swaggers like a general. A training exercise tips the whole thing into farce. Shot between the show's third and fourth series, the film rewinds to how this unlikely platoon first came together. The humour is bone-dry and patient; it lands if you like comedy built on character rather than punchlines. Stream Dad's Army (1971) online on iFILM.