Great SAS Missions(2004)
DocumentaryWar & Politics
First Air Date: 2004-08-04
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 8.5
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
Over the past 60 years Britain's Special Air Service regiment has carried out a wide variety of clandestine missions - from deep-penetration raiding to hostage release operations - which have made it respected and feared for its professionalism and daring. The SAS prides itself on doing its work in the shadows, never allowing any publicity and never claiming credit for any of its extraordinary achievements. But, over the years, sufficient information has emerged for a picture of the regiment's exploits to be clear. This series uses interviews with former members of the SAS; detailed and painstaking reconstructions; and cutting edge 3-D graphics to recreate seven great missions which show why the SAS is today regarded as the world's leading special forces unit.
Keywords
world war iibritish armyfalklands warspecial air service (sas)desert stormadolf hitler
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 7E01
Birth of the SAS
Air Date: 2004-08-04
As the Panzers of Rommel's Afrika Korps swept the British back into Egypt in 1941, a young commando lieutenant, David...
E02
Destroying Hitler's Airfields
Air Date: 2004-08-11
After its initial and near-fatal problems the SAS changed its tactics - using its own heavily-armed jeeps to strike d...
E03
Deception on D-Day
Air Date: 2004-08-18
As the Allies landed on D-Day to begin the liberation of Europe, the SAS used the skills it had honed in the desert i...
E04
Hunting Hitler's Terror Weapons
Air Date: 2004-08-25
As the Allies broke out of their Normandy beachhead and swept towards the German border, the SAS continued its deep p...
E05
Liberating the Iranian Embassy
Air Date: 2004-09-01
After World War II the SAS was disbanded, but it was soon realised that its special skills would be needed in the vol...
E06
Retaking the Falklands
Air Date: 2004-09-08
When the British Task Force sailed to take back the Falkand Islands from Argentine occupation, two squadrons of the S...
E07
Desert Storm Scudbusters
Air Date: 2004-09-15
In the Gulf wars of 1992 and 2003, the SAS returned to its roots as deep penetration teams fanned out into the Iraqi ...
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