Hornblower: Duty

Watch Hornblower: Duty (2003) online — the eighth TV film in the Hornblower series, directed by Andrew Grieve. Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay and Paul McGann reprise their roles. The wedding reception has barely cleared when Admiral Pellew's orders arrive: locate the reconnaissance sloop Grasshopper, missing off the French coast with Napoleon's forces active in the area.

Mid-mission, Hornblower hauls a mysterious young couple out of a storm — with no plausible story for how they ended up in open water. Their secret surfaces at the worst possible time. Where the previous films leaned on courtroom drama and politics, this one is tighter and more nautical, with a genuine sense of danger at sea. Stream Hornblower: Duty on iFILM.