BLACK OPS travels the world to take viewers along on top secret special ops missions. The series reveals how elite special operations units in different countries carry out their high-risk/zero-recognition assignments and shares the inside story of some of the most dramatic military actions in recent history. When 40 Chechen terrorists armed with guns and bombs hold 800 theater-goers hostage, it's up to Russia's elite anti-terrorist force, Spetsnaz group "Alpha," to get the hostages out alive. Negotiation is not an option, and a siege would set off the explosives. The only way to save the hostages' lives is to use an untested top-secret knock-out gas.
The show takes a look at the bloody end to the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, back in 1997.
A look at the cross country operation that saw the SAS team up with the German GSG in order to solve the hijacking of the Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977.
The story of the rebirth of the SAS, as British soldiers take part in a counter insurgency campaign called the Malayan Emergency.
A look at the incredible Israeli assasination plot to bring down Abu Jibad.
tage Rescue Two aid workers are kidnapped in Afghanistan.
Three special forces units travel to Syria to take out the mastermind behind the country's nuclear weapons program
A group of terrorists are hiding in Iraqi Kurdistan where they control a mountainous area known as the Halabja salient - US Army Special Forces are sent deep behind Iraqi lines to eliminate the terrorists with the help of local Kurdish fighters.
A look at what really happened on the day an American helicopter was shot down over Somalia in 1993.
BLACK OPS travels the world to take viewers along on top secret special ops missions. The series reveals how elite special operations units in different countries carry out their high-risk/zero-recognition assignments and shares the inside story of some of the most dramatic military actions in recent history. When 40 Chechen terrorists armed with guns and bombs hold 800 theater-goers hostage, it's up to Russia's elite anti-terrorist force, Spetsnaz group "Alpha," to get the hostages out alive. Negotiation is not an option, and a siege would set off the explosives. The only way to save the hostages' lives is to use an untested top-secret knock-out gas.
James R.M. Hunt
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