Rare Bird (Season 1)

Rare Bird (2024) is a wartime drama you can watch online. The year is 1943: combat pilot Anna Petrova, grounded by a serious injury, returns from the front and takes a job as lead engineer at an aircraft factory.

The plant is readying a new fighter, the Krechet, for testing. Unaware of how badly her injury still affects her, the management orders Anna and Major Zotov to ferry the prototype to the front line. She has a private reason to climb back into a cockpit, too: an unsettled score with Briggel, the German ace whose attack killed the man she loved. Duty and revenge end up sharing a single flight path, where a mistake costs a life rather than a reprimand.

Director Olga Muzaleva skips the parade-ground version of war for the story of a woman equally strained at the controls and the drafting table. Katerina Shpitsa plays it restrained and quiet, with Alexander Gorbatov as Major Zotov. The 12+ rating keeps it suitable for a family evening. Stream Rare Bird online on iFILM.