Season 1

School (Школа, 2010) Season 1 — watch online on iFILM all 69 episodes of Valeria Gai Germanika's portrait of one ninth-grade class in an ordinary Moscow school. A teen drama with a comic streak, and the show that once sparked a debate on the floor of the Russian parliament.

Class 9-A used to be the model group, back when Nosov ran it — Teacher of the Year, a steady hand. Then he falls ill, and the legend of the perfect class falls apart within weeks. Order frays. Nosov's own granddaughter Anya turns out to be about the hardest teenager in the building, and a new boy, Ilya Epifanov, keeps engineering moments that show his classmates in lights their teachers never expected. No one on staff wants the class anymore.

Shot on jittery handheld cameras with no score and no makeup, it feels watched rather than performed. The season is for viewers who'd rather have honest film about growing up than a glossy school story. Stream School Season 1 online on iFILM.