Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies (2015) is Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama you can watch online on iFILM. Tom Hanks plays a Brooklyn insurance lawyer who suddenly finds himself standing between two nuclear powers. It draws on things that actually happened.

James Donovan is handed a case nobody wants: defending a man Washington has branded a Soviet spy. He takes it seriously, and the country turns on him for it. Then the job mutates. A U.S. pilot is shot down deep inside enemy airspace, captured, and Donovan is asked to do something with no rulebook — slip into a Berlin freshly cut in half and broker a trade of one prisoner for another. British actor Mark Rylance won an Oscar for his quiet turn as Rudolf Abel.

The Coen brothers polished the script, lending Spielberg's film a dry, wary wit. It earned four Academy Award nominations and remains one of the sharpest movies about the era of suspicion. Stream Bridge of Spies (2015) online on iFILM.