A look at the mission of a select group of British Special Forces who were sent to Africa's smallest country, Gambia, in the midst of a coup to covertly rescue the absent president's wife and children

A look at when a regiment of British soldiers find themselves held hostage by Sierra Leone's notorious West Side Boys. It was up to British Special Forces to conduct a rescue of a scale not seen since the Second World War. Tom Hardy narrates

In the first episode: across six days in 1980 the eyes of the world fixed upon London's Iranian Embassy, where terrorists held over 20 hostages. Next door a squadron of SAS soldiers sit quietly, primed and ready to raid and rescue those held.