The Unit (Seasons 1–4)

The Unit (2006) is a CBS military action series you can watch online on iFILM, developed with playwright David Mamet and starring Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, and Robert Patrick across four seasons.

The show follows a covert special forces team whose missions — hijacked planes, weapons caches, operations in unnamed countries — are classified before they even happen. Sergeant Major Jonas Blane runs the unit without sentiment, while new recruit Bob Brown figures out fast that joining means living a double life. Back home, the soldiers' wives know the rules: cover the absence, ask no questions, keep the secret. The series ran from 2006 to 2009.

Mamet's fingerprints are on the writing — tight, stripped-down dialogue and a refusal to treat combat as spectacle. The domestic storylines carry the same weight as the field missions, which gives the show more tension than a standard military procedural. Stream all seasons of The Unit online on iFILM.