Synopsis
Gunpowder (2017), Season 1 is a three-part BBC historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, set in an England where holding the wrong faith can get you killed.
It opens in 1603. The man at the centre is not Guy Fawkes but Robert Catesby, a young Warwickshire gentleman who has watched the persecution of Catholics tear his family apart. Episode one hardens his grief into a decision. From there the story tracks the recruiting trips across Europe, the secret meetings, and the slow assembly of the conspirators whose names history kept. By the third hour the barrels sit in the tunnels under Parliament, the King's spies are closing in, and a cornered priest, Father Garnet, holds a secret that could undo everything.
Kit Harington — a real descendant of Catesby — plays him cold and unromantic, a true believer who will not stop. A lean, unflinching miniseries about where religious terror begins. Stream Gunpowder Season 1 online on iFILM.
3 episodes
S1·E1Episode 1
It is 1603, and as England wars with Spain and the bloody persecution of Catholics intensifies, a young nobleman resolves to avenge his kin and defend his faith by any means necessary.
S1·E2Episode 2
As the king's network of spies close in on them, Catesby and Wintour attempt to raise an army for their plot across mainland Europe. Returning to London with Guy Fawkes in tow, Catesby assembles his gang of plotters for the first time. They know they must act fast, and the plan is formed - they will strike next week, 5 November, at the opening of Parliament.
S1·E3Episode 3
On the eve of the 5th of November, Catesby, Fawkes and the plotters load the tunnels below Parliament with barrels of gunpowder. Across the city, Father Garnet is under pressure to reveal Catesby's plot for the good of the Catholic faith. Will the priest be the one to betray Catesby at the eleventh hour?
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