5ive Days to Midnight (Season 1)

5ive Days to Midnight (2004) is a Canadian-American sci-fi thriller miniseries you can watch online on iFILM. Timothy Hutton plays J.T. Neumeyer, a physics professor who stumbles on a battered briefcase stuffed with crime scene photos, ballistic evidence, a witness list and a newspaper clipping — all dated five days in the future. The clipping reports his own murder.

Every document in that briefcase proceeds to come true on schedule. Each passing day locks another piece into place, the suspects keep circling, and Neumeyer's room to manoeuvre shrinks fast. Randy Quaid co-stars as the detective who knows more than he lets on, and Giancarlos Esposito adds another layer of menace. The four-part Sci Fi Channel miniseries builds its tension the way a good countdown should: each episode cuts the clock rather than the stakes. Stream 5ive Days to Midnight online on iFILM.