SAS - The Real Story - 4oD

Series 1 Episode 1

First Broadcast: Mon 15 September 2003 Channel 4

The story of the SAS's little-known exploits in Oman and their subsequent association with excellence in desert warfare.

The organisation's spectacular victory at the Jebel Akhbar established the soldiers' credentials as desert fighters par excellence and began their long association with battles over oil.

Oman in '58, Dhofar in '72 - and more recently Iraq and Afghanistan - were all desert and mountain environments in which the SAS has operated often hundreds of miles behind enemy lines.

Oman was also the site of one the great untold battles, where 400 rebels attacked a fort at Mirbat that was guarded by nine SAS men. Against all odds the SAS held out until they were relieved three hours later.

The men involved in that battle and other desert campaigns tell their stories.

SERIES:

1. Series 1 Episode 1 Desert
  
  The story of the SAS's little-known exploits in Oman and their subsequent association with excellence in desert warfare.
  - Scenes of armed conflict and its victims
2. Series 1 Episode 2 Jungle
  
  The SAS was set up during World War II to make daring lightning raids behind enemy lines with small groups of men…
  - Scenes of armed conflict and its victims
3. Series 1 Episode 3 Terror
  
  Since Palestinian terrorists killed 11 members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, international…
  - Contains archive footage of armed conflict and its victims which some viewers may find upsetting
4. Series 1 Episode 4 Who Cares Who Wins
  
  The SAS's methods - always small in scale and secretive, and usually deadly effective - point the way to a warfare…
  - Contains archive footage of armed conflict and its victims which some viewers may find upsetting