War of the Kingdoms (Season 1)

War of the Kingdoms (Die Nibelungen — Kampf der Königreiche, 2025) is a German epic fantasy series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Cyrill Boss. The source is the medieval Nibelungenlied — a twelfth-century Germanic heroic poem — here stripped of mythic grandeur and rebuilt as a cold political thriller: Burgundy is under siege, and the one man holding the line is the fierce master-at-arms Hagen von Tronje, played by Gijs Naber.

Into this pressure cooker steps Siegfried von Xanten (Jannis Niewöhner), dragon-slayer and unsolicited saviour. King Gunther sees opportunity. Hagen sees trouble. He is already caught between his oath to the crown and a secret feeling for the king's daughter Kriemhild (Lilja van der Zwaag) — and now every move risks tipping the whole kingdom into blood.

Boss plays the saga straight, no ornament. The result sits closer to hard-edged dynastic drama than to fantasy — something fans of The Last Kingdom or Vikings would feel at home watching. Stream all episodes of War of the Kingdoms (2025) online on iFILM.