Season 1
Who dares wins.
Synopsis
SAS Rogue Heroes (2022), Season 1 watch online on iFILM — a six-episode BBC war drama about the rowdy birth of Britain's most reckless special forces unit in the North African desert.
It is spring 1941 and the regular army is stuck. David Stirling (Connor Swindells) and Jock Lewes pitch what high command calls lunacy: drop a handful of men behind the lines and hit the enemy where no attack is expected. This first season is the climb from a half-mad idea to a fighting unit with official standing. A first raid that goes catastrophically wrong. Brutal training under the unhinged Paddy Mayne (Jack O'Connell). Losses that land hard. And airfield raids that make Axis commanders learn the SAS name the hard way. By the finale the men are running on Benghazi and meeting Churchill himself.
Creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) shoots the war with deliberate swagger — rock music over the gunfire and soldiers who treat the rulebook as a suggestion. Under the bravado sits a true story, drawn from Ben Macintyre's book. Good for anyone who likes their history loud and free of museum dust. Stream SAS Rogue Heroes Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Episode 1
Spring 1941. Frustrated with military command’s handling of war, Stirling and Lewes formulate a plan to parachute men into the desert, attacking enemy forces from deep in the desert.
S1·E2Episode 2
While recovering in hospital, Stirling ruminates on Lewes’s idea to attack the enemy from behind and hatches a plan to get approval for their unit from General Auchinleck at GHQ.
S1·E3Episode 3
The newly recruited members of the SAS carry out a disastrous and devastating first mission. Determined to prove their strategy will work, they prepare to try again.
S1·E4Episode 4
As the SAS's reputation spreads among the Axis Italian and German forces, another daring mission results in a shocking and devastating loss to the team.
S1·E5Episode 5
Paddy initiates the Free French soldiers into some unorthodox training methods, and Stirling leads a raid on Benghazi accompanied by the prime minister’s son, Randolph Churchill.
S1·E6Episode 6
A meeting with Winston Churchill sees the SAS embark on their most daring operation to date. While success sees them achieve official status, Stirling receives some terrible news.
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