The Sentinels (Season 1)

1915, the trenches of the First World War. The Sentinels (Les Sentinelles, 2025) is a French sci-fi war series you can watch online on iFILM. Private Gabriel is written off as dead — then quietly pulled into a secret lab.

A serum makes him faster, stronger and tougher than any man at the front. The price of ever seeing his family again is enlistment in the Sentinels, a handful of altered soldiers ordered to end the war by any means. Every battle blurs the line between a man and a weapon. Gabriel digs into who turned people into experiments, and whether there's any way back to the person he used to be.

Directors Thierry Poiraud and Edouard Salier blend period drama, action and body-horror sci-fi; it looks closer to a grim graphic novel than a history lesson. Brutal, muddy and stripped of heroic gloss. Stream The Sentinels online on iFILM.