Genius (Seasons 1–4)

Genius (2017) is a National Geographic anthology drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Each season takes a different historical figure — Einstein, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, and the paired season following Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — and rebuilds their life from youth through their defining years. The cast across seasons includes Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Johnny Flynn, Aaron Pierre, Cynthia Erivo, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.

The show's consistent move is to place the towering public achievement next to whatever was quietly collapsing in private. Einstein's theories sit alongside a marriage he neglected and a moral crisis over nuclear weapons. Picasso's brushwork comes with a trail of people he used up. The King and Malcolm X season runs their two philosophies in parallel — agreement and rupture both. It is history written at close range, not from a textbook distance. Stream all seasons of Genius online on iFILM.