The Saboteurs (Season 1)

The Saboteurs (Kampen om tungtvannet, 2015) is a Norwegian wartime miniseries you can watch online on iFILM. High in the mountain town of Rjukan sits a plant turning out heavy water — the one ingredient Germany's atomic project can't proceed without. The Allies have to shut it down.

Director Per-Olav Sørensen tells it from four angles at once. A German physicist trusts his science and never asks whose hands it serves. London planners weigh the odds while a small sabotage team is dropped into the Norwegian snow to climb iced-over slopes toward the factory. And the bosses of Norsk Hydro try to keep their company alive between an occupier and their own people. Anna Friel, Tobias Santelmann and Mads Sjøgård Pettersen lead the cast.

The show reconstructs one of the boldest raids of the war — the same operation that fed decades of adventure films — but strips off the heroics: the cold, the exhaustion, the weight of every call. It suits viewers who like patient Nordic drama where tension builds from detail rather than gunfire. Stream The Saboteurs (2015) online on iFILM.