Superman: Red Son

Superman: Red Son (2020) is an animated sci-fi action film you can watch online on iFILM. One question rewrites everything: what if baby Kal-El's rocket had crashed on a Soviet farm instead of a Kansas one? Raised under Stalin, this Superman fights for communism, not the American way.

It's the height of the Cold War. Moscow unveils its newest weapon to the world, and Washington panics as the arms race becomes a superpowers race. The CIA turns to Lex Luthor, a brilliant scientist obsessed with bringing the red god down. Jason Isaacs voices the Soviet Man of Steel, with Amy Acker, Diedrich Bader and Phil Morris rounding out the cast.

Directed by Sam Liu, the film adapts Mark Millar's celebrated comic, one of DC's boldest alternate-reality tales. There are no easy villains here: an all-powerful dictator who genuinely wants utopia, and an enemy whose hands are far from clean. It's a sharp pick for anyone tired of by-the-numbers superhero stories who wants to see the character flipped on his head. Stream Superman: Red Son online on iFILM.