Black Ops

Stories of operations by special forces with reenactments, archival footage, narration, and interviews with those who took part. Some operations are famous while others are lesser known.

Genre: Drama, History, Mystery

Cast:Richard Cullen , Ross Donnelly , Max Rudd , Danny Darren , Mark Ivan Benfield , Jason Gregg , Murtaza Arif , Kumud Pant , Mark Stedman , Alisdair Simpson , Laura Bush , Hamish Patel , Alice De-Warrenne , Shiraz Khan , Ajmal Kasab , Philip Mudd , Gordon Bibby , Mark Urban

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ City Under Siege

Wed, Oct 10, 2012

Mumbai is under bloody attack and only one Special Force has the know-how and training to take the terrorists to task. In November 2008, an undisclosed number of assassins went on a three-day rampage of death and destruction in India's largest city.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Night of Terror

Oct 2012

October 2002. Russia's elite force, Spetnaz Group Alfa, face an impossible task - to rescue 800 people held hostage by Chechen gunmen and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theatre. Negotiations have failed and innocent lives hang in the balance.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Taking Down Bin Laden

Wed, Oct 24, 2012

This is the story of the most daring black ops raid in recent history. The inside account of operation Neptune Spear: how US Navy Seals brought to an end the hunt for the most wanted man in the world, and took down the mastermind of 9/11: Osama Bin Laden

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Assault on Al-Qaeda

Sun, Oct 21, 2012

Al-Zarqawi- the most wanted man in Iraq, is proving a formidable enemy. Responsible for bombings, beheadings and attacks, he's more persistent than Saddam and more active than Osama. The coalition's only hope lies with a top secret task force.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Operation Thunderbolt

Wed, Nov 7, 2012

June 27, 1976 Four terrorists hijack a flight bound for Paris. Forcing the plane to land in Entebbe Uganda they move their hostages to an old terminal. The passengers' fate, most of them Jewish or Israeli, lies in the hands of Israel's top black ops team.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Operation Certain Death

Wed, Nov 14, 2012

August 25th, 2000: Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Royal Irish Regiment, a unit of the British Army, takes a wrong turn on patrol. They are held up on the roadside by a notorious gang of rebels; the Â'West Side Boys'.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Real Black Hawk Down

Wed, Jun 11, 2014

A Special Forces mission turns into a battle for survival after disaster strikes in Mogadishu, Somalia.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Operation Viking Hammer

Wed, Jun 18, 2014

Go behind enemy lines and discover how the Green Berets teamed up with rebel Kurds to target Islamist insurgents who were said to be making chemical weapons.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Strike on Syria

Wed, Jun 25, 2014

Sayeret Matkal, Israel's elite black ops unit, have to foil Syria's plans to develop a nuclear bomb.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Afghan Hostage Rescue

Tue, Jul 15, 2014

Kidnapped aid workers in Afghanistan present a difficult rescue mission for U.S. Navy SEALs and Britain's Special Air Service.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Killing of Abu Jihad

Wed, Jul 9, 2014

A 1988 mission by Israeli commandos to assassinate Palestinian leader Khalil all-Wazir is examined.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Crisis in Malaya

Wed, Jul 16, 2014

The Malayan Emergency in 1948 draws the British Special Air Service into the fight against communist forces.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Operation Fire Magic

Wed, Jul 23, 2014

West German Special Forces attempt to rescue hostages aboard hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 at a Somalian airport in October 1977.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Japanese Embassy Siege

Wed, Jul 30, 2014

A raid by Peruvian commandos to free hostages taken by Marxist rebels at the Japanese embassy ends a four-month siege in April 1997.