Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (Season 1)

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999) — watch online on iFILM — a CGI animated series charting the Mobile Infantry squad known as Razak's Roughnecks across a galaxy-wide war against the insectoid Bugs.

Each arc drops the squad onto a different world: the ocean planet Hydora, the ice of Pluto, the jungles of Hercules. The show is less interested in spectacle than in the weight of sustained combat — unit discipline, mounting losses, and what each decision costs. Clancy Brown and Rider Strong lead the voice cast. Produced across 1999 and 2000, it stands apart from Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film; this takes Heinlein's military science fiction seriously rather than satirically, and hits differently for it.

Stream every episode of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles online on iFILM.