Sharpe's Battle

Sharpe's Battle (1995) is a military TV film you can watch online on iFILM — the ninth entry in the Sharpe series based on Bernard Cornwell's novels, directed by Tom Clegg. Sean Bean returns as Major Sharpe, handed a near-impossible assignment in the Pyrenees in autumn 1813: turn a ceremonial Irish guard unit into soldiers ready for real combat.

Lord Kiely leads the Royal Irish Company — handsome, reckless and entirely untested. Sharpe pushes them hard. Then false rumours of an English massacre in Ireland turn the men against him, Kiely begins an affair with a Spanish partisan leader that unravels discipline, and Brigadier Loup — a French officer who fights without rules — springs a trap. The episode works because the threat comes from inside the regiment almost as much as from outside. Stream Sharpe's Battle (1995) online on iFILM.