Name: Special Forces
Released: 2001-12-18T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: D.B. Sweeney

TV Show · Action

A look at how developed nations worldwide have trained their own teams of super soldiers to counter the threat:of terrorism.

2001 · 51m

EPISODE 1

The Green Berets: The Battle of Lang Vei

On 31 January 1968, North Vietnam violates a truce during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. The North Vietnamese Army launches shock attacks on several key cities and provinces in South Vietnam, capturing the US embassy in Saigon.
EPISODE 2

The Royal Dutch Marines

Royal Dutch Marines were faced with a double hostage scenario when heavily armed South Moluccan terrorists took over a commuter train and a primary school.
EPISODE 3

The British SAS: Attack in the Desert

Made famous in the books by Chris Ryan and Andy McNab, this is the story of a disastrous SAS mission to Iraq in 1991.
EPISODE 4

Germany's GSG-9: Jihad in the Fatherland

On 15 September 1977, five masked gunmen abduct Hans Martin Schleyer and execute his three bodyguards. The Red Army Faction, in association with Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof Gang, take credit for the crime.

Season 1

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