Ladoga (Season 1)

Ladoga (2014) is a Russian wartime drama series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexandr Veledinsky. January 1942: Leningrad is sealed off, and the only supply line keeping the city alive runs across the frozen surface of Lake Ladoga — trucks grinding through cold, shelling, and ice that can split without warning.

Soviet counterintelligence picks up a signal: the Germans are moving to knock out the ice road. The suspect is almost certainly one of the drivers, men who haul supplies day and night across a surface that was never built to be driven on. Alexey Serebryakov plays the NKVD captain assigned to root out the traitor — working not with hard evidence but with pressure, exhaustion, and guesswork.

Kseniya Rappoport and Andrei Merzlikin round out a strong cast. What separates Ladoga from a standard wartime procedural is that the stakes are structural: one successful act of sabotage could have starved a city. Stream Ladoga online on iFILM.