SAS The Soldiers' Story

This is an hour long explosive special about the storming of the Iranian Embassy in Kensington, West London where accounts from the actual SAS add up to the most revealing, definitive and human scale history of the regiment ever compiled. Daring, determination, breathtaking skill and bravery were the crucial qualities the SAS troopers displayed to the world as they ended the six-day siege in May 1980 and released the hostages in a manner that immediately catapulted the regiment into the annuals of military legend. Altogether the SAS men rescued 19 hostages of the original 26 seized by the terrorist. One hostage was executed, another was killed in the assault and five released during the siege. The sole surviving terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter.

This video breaks new ground in dramatic fashion with first hand-accounts by leading ex-members of the regiment whose daring and determination have made it most feared and respected special task force and counter-terrorist unit in the world. Together, they have decades of fighting experience, covering some of the most testing military operations undertaken by the SAS. Their accounts reveal the fears, emotions and instinctive feelings of men who were so often at the heart of the action. This programme follows the exhilarating and at times brutal elements of SAS training - from the six month selection procedure through to the most advanced and testing training programme of any army in the modern world.

The Gulf War: The Gulf War saw the largest deployment of Special Air Service since the Second World War. The celebrated exploits of one of them, codenamed Bravo Two Zero, have gripped the world's imagination; but this was only in a massive SAS campaign involving many missions. This was one of the most daring and spectacular of all Special Forces operation. Oman: The Battle Of Mirbat The battle of Mirbat in July 1972 ranks as one of the proudest moments in SAS history - a bloody encounter in which nine SAS men showed outstanding heroism to defeat an attack by 400 Arab rebels. The SAS were heavily involved in the secret war, training and supporting the Sultan's forces against incursion by well armed communist insurgents. For the rebels, the defeat that day signalled the beginning of the end and they were never again able to deploy such a large force.

The Falklands It was a textbook operation in the best tradition of the SAS - a daring nigh-time `hit-and-run-like-hell' raid on an Argentine airstrip on Pebble Island. This programme includes a first-hand account from one of the men in G Squadron who were secretly landed on the Falklands Islands before the main British landings. About 40 men were involved in high risk missions, relaying a continuous stream of intelligence from covert-observation posts in difficult and boggy terrain set in a desolate and freezing enemy-occupied landscape. Columbia This episode looks at SAS missions in the jungle and for the first time reveals that the SAS have operated in Columbia, co-ordinating special units to fight against the drug cartels controlling the production and supply of cocaine throughout the world. In this episode a leading SAS soldier talks first hand about his experiences fighting the drug barons.