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SAS: Who Dares Wins

2016 • Channel 4
4.9
18 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (5)

1 Character
6/6/16
In the first episode the 30 recruits arrive at the isolated barracks in Wales and are introduced to the directing staff (DS) Foxy, Ollie and Colin, all operating under the watchful eye of Chief Instructor Ant. This is an elite team: four ex-Special Forces men with years of military and Special Forces experience, including dozens of tours of Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Sierra Leone. They have all experienced, at first hand, the strength, mental resilience and raw determination needed to pass Selection. 2016 Arrow Films
2 Weakness
6/6/16
In the second episode, following a brutal first stage, just 20 of the original 30 recruits remain. At the isolated barracks in Wales the Directing Staff will now take the intensity up a gear, applying pressure to isolate and expose individuals they think are weak. The recruits are woken with their first test. They are each instructed by the DS to choose the recruit who they believe to be the weakest amongst them. Recruits Mark and Phil receive the most votes. 2016 Arrow Films
3 Fear
6/6/16
Episode 3 will capture day five of the selection course – a 24-hour period in which the DS will focus on the recruit's FEAR. Now that they're down to the men they rate, the DS start to use extreme tactics reveal who really has the potential to make it through to the final phase of selection. 2016 Arrow Films
4 Survival
6/6/16
They now have to whittle down the group again, to the 6 recruits they think may have what it takes to complete the final stage of the course - a punishing 72 hour cat and mouse chase across challenging terrain, before facing the most gruelling part of the selection process: Interrogation. 2016 Arrow Films
5 Interrogation
6/6/16
In the last episode of the series, recruits are put through the final, notoriously gruelling stage of selection - INTERROGATION. Seven days ago, 30 recruits stood in front of the Directing Staff (DS), now only five remain. 2016 Arrow Films

About this show

SAS: Who Dares Wins is a new series which reveals one of the world's most physically challenging and psychologically demanding military entrance processes: SAS selection. The MoD has said it will never allow Selection to be filmed. But in this series, a group of ex-Special Forces personnel take 30 ordinary men through an SAS selection course, designed and run by them, with every test taken from the real Special Forces selection they all went through. It's shot with minimal interference for maximum authenticity, as the recruits spend eight intensive days isolated from the outside world. For the SAS, physical fitness is little more than a necessary minimum. The true test is one of character: do these men have the mental strength needed to join the Special Forces? As they're subjected to psychological profiling and testing, sleep deprivation and stress positions, extreme physical endurance, and capture and interrogation, the men are taken to the edge of their capabilities and some surprising truths emerge: Alpha males aren't always welcome, coming first in the race isn't always the way to win, and what's really being tested is often not what it seems.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
18 reviews
Sarah B
April 27, 2022
Love it love it love it! Great content, can feel the adrenalin! Well directed and put together. Complete admiration for these soldiers and for these contestants that bravely tackle a snippet of their world
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Andrew Tuohy
November 6, 2016
Gives you insight into how to become a soldier in, arguably, one of the best elite task forces ever
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James Purves
August 19, 2023
Brilliant
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