The Guardian

The Guardian (2006) is an action drama directed by Andrew Davis that you can watch online on iFILM. Kevin Costner stars as Ben Randall, a decorated Coast Guard rescue swimmer haunted by a single night in the Bering Sea — a storm that took his entire crew and left only him.

Sidelined to an instructor role at the elite "A" School, Randall meets his match in Jake Fisher (Ashton Kutcher): a college swim phenom with raw talent and a chip the size of an aircraft carrier on his shoulder. What starts as a grinding clash of wills slowly turns into something each man needed without knowing it. The film runs 139 minutes and earns every one of them.

Shot on real open water off Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico, the movie puts the actual job of a rescue swimmer front and center — hypothermic bodies, zero-visibility dives, the math of who you reach first. Stream The Guardian (2006) in full on iFILM.