Name: Surviving the Cut
Released: 2010-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: William Sadler

Available on discovery+, HBO Max

Surviving the Cut follows America’s toughest men as they try to fight their way to special operations most elite status.

Reality · 2010 · 44 min

Starring William Sadler

EPISODE 1

Ranger School

Go inside the toughest combat course in the world. US Army Ranger School replicates the nonstop stress of war to forge the Army's elite combat leaders. Candidates sleep little, eat less while running 20-hour missions. Only one in three survives the cut.

43 min · 14 Jan 2011
EPISODE 2

US Air Force Pararescue

Students must survive one notoriously difficult milestone called Extended Training Day nothing else in any special operations training course rivals the torment of this single day. Only 10 percent survive the cut.

43 min · 31 May 2020
EPISODE 3

US Marine Recon

Marines are pushed to unconsciousness in the pool, wrestle 90-pound packs in the pounding surf of the Pacific Ocean. It's a man-breaking, all-out endurance test that forges top soldiers with unparalleled skills. One in three don't survive the cut.

43 min · 4 Feb 2011
EPISODE 4

Special Forces Diver

Elite special ops soldiers challenge themselves to become the most highly trained combat divers on the planet. For six weeks, they are tested in the most severe underwater conditions, pushing the limits of the human body to prove they have what it takes.

42 min · 28 Jan 2011
EPISODE 5

Navy EOD Final Certification

This is all or nothing training: A five-day, non-stop series of high stress missions. Make the wrong move, allow fatigue or distraction to take over and the entire team will fail.

43 min · 11 Feb 2011
EPISODE 6

Marine Sniper

Only the best men are sent to the Marine sniper course, but one third of them are likely to fail.

43 min · 18 Feb 2011