Muhammad: The Messenger of God

Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015) is available to watch online on iFILM, directed by Majid Majidi — the Iranian filmmaker behind Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise. The film is set in Mecca around the time of the Prophet's birth: tribal rivalries, a failed military campaign against the Kaaba by the warlord Abraha, and the forces that converge to protect the family of Hashim from those who already sense a threat in the child not yet born.

Majidi made a deliberate choice throughout the shoot: the Prophet's face is never shown. The camera moves around him, suggests his presence, but never confronts it directly. It's a constraint that gives the film an unusual solemnity and separates it from any conventional biographical approach.

Shot across three countries over several years with a budget above $40 million, it was the most expensive Iranian production ever made at the time of its release. Stream Muhammad: The Messenger of God online on iFILM.