Bomb (Season 1)

Bomb (2020) is a Soviet-era historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Gifted physicist Mikhail Rubin is pulled out of a labor camp for a mission the whole country is counting on — to build the first Soviet atomic device.

Rubin had ended up behind the wire after a personal feud with the all-powerful security chief Beria. His sudden release comes courtesy of an old friend and colleague, Kirill Muromtsev, who put his name forward; academician Kurchatov signed off on the choice. Back in Moscow, the physicist learns a bitter truth: while he was imprisoned, his fiancée Anna married that very same Kirill. Now these three have to push the same project forward, swallowing the private wreckage between them. Evgeny Tkachuk, Evgenia Brik and Viktor Dobronravov hold together this knot of science, love and betrayal.

Director Igor Kopylov stages a tense chronicle of the late 1940s — sealed design bureaus, a death sentence hanging over every miscalculation, and a decisive dawn at a test range out on the Kazakh steppe, where the balance of the world was on the line. Strong performances and a rarely filmed subject: the human price of a scientific breakthrough. Stream Bomb (2020) online on iFILM.