David

David (1997) is a television epic you can watch online on iFILM, running nearly three hours through the life of Israel's most storied king. Directed by Robert Markowitz and produced jointly across the US, Germany and Italy, it follows David from a shepherd's field outside Bethlehem to a reign shaped by war, betrayal and personal scandal.

Nathaniel Parker plays David across four decades, while Jonathan Pryce and Leonard Nimoy take on key figures in the world around him. The film covers the full sweep of the biblical account — the duel with Goliath, the years fleeing Saul, the affair with Bathsheba, the revolt led by his son Absalom — without reducing any of it to pure spectacle. A solid entry in the wave of Bible-based co-productions that television in the late 1990s did surprisingly well. Watch David (1997) online on iFILM.