Charité (Seasons 1–4)

Charité (2017) is a German period medical drama you can watch online on iFILM. In late-1880s Berlin, penniless young Ida ends up at the famous Charité hospital and, unable to pay for her own treatment, stays on to work the debt off.

Scrubbing floors and running between wards, she finds herself steps away from doctors whose names history would go on to keep. Watching them rethink what disease even is, Ida discovers a hunger for medicine she never knew she had. Alicia von Rittberg leads a crowded ensemble that runs from worn-out nurses to professors hungry for glory.

The season turns on a real race against infection — diphtheria, tuberculosis, the first antitoxins and the breakthroughs that would soon hand German science its earliest Nobel honours. Director Sönke Wortmann skips the stiff costume-pageant approach for a charged drama about ambition, love and the price of discovery. Stream Charité online on iFILM.