The Red Baron

The Red Baron (Der rote Baron, 2008) is a German war drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Nikolai Müllerschön. Matthias Schweighöfer plays Manfred von Richthofen — the World War I ace who racked up 80 aerial kills and became the most feared pilot on the Western Front. Till Schweiger, Lena Headey, and Joseph Fiennes round out the cast.

For Richthofen and his squadron, dogfights are a game of skill and honour, not slaughter. Then he meets Kate, a nurse, and her world — the wards filled with the men his war chews up — chips away at that clean self-image. At 106 minutes, the film balances large-scale aerial sequences with a portrait of a man who realised his personal courage was being used as a recruitment poster.

What sets this apart from standard WWI pictures is its refusal to canonise its subject. Richthofen is neither villain nor saint here — just a gifted pilot discovering, too late, the gap between bravery and purpose. Stream The Red Baron (2008) online on iFILM.