The Crimson Field (Season 1)

The Crimson Field (2014) is a British wartime drama series you can watch online on iFILM. World War One, somewhere on the French coast: inside a canvas field hospital, doctors, nurses and civilian volunteers work overlapping shifts treating men pulled back from the trenches — wounds that are visible and wounds that aren't.

Hermione Norris, Oona Chaplin and Richard Rankin lead an ensemble of characters each carrying their own concealed history into this sealed-off, exhausting world. The front stays off-screen; the drama plays out in the wards and quiet corridors. Directed by David Evans and Thaddeus O'Sullivan, the BBC series works more like a slow character study than a war epic — which is exactly what makes it worth the watch. Watch The Crimson Field online on iFILM.