SAS: Who Dares Wins
SAS: Who Dares Wins

SAS: Who Dares Wins

2015 8 Seasons 45 Episodes ⭐ 6.6 Reality Documentary

Selection for the SAS is one of the world's toughest job interviews and physical fitness is only the starting point. What's really being tested is psychological resilience and character as candidates undergo sleep deprivation, interrogation and a series of increasingly complex mind games. In this programme, five ex-special forces soldiers re-create tasks from the SAS's secret selection process, putting 30 civilian men through the ultimate test of their physical and - more importantly - their psychological resilience.

Selection for the SAS is one of the world's toughest job interviews and physical fitness is only the starting point. What's really being tested is psychological resilience and character as candidates undergo sleep deprivation, interrogation and a series of increasingly complex mind games. In this programme, five ex-special forces soldiers re-create tasks from the SAS's secret selection process, putting 30 civilian men through the ultimate test of their physical and - more importantly - their psychological resilience.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Character

The recruits' first task is an unexpected one: writing an essay about themselves. Then they face an eight-mile combat fi

EP 2

Weakness

The remaining recruits must choose their weakest colleagues, who then lead the next exercise. And there's the 'Sickener'

EP 3

Fear

The directing staff test the remaining recruits' resistance to fear, with mind games and an intimidating challenge to di

EP 4

Survival

The directing staff have to whittle the group down to the six they think may have what it takes to complete the final st

EP 5

Interrogation

The remaining recruits each face the final, notoriously gruelling stage of selection alone: 24 hours of interrogation. D

EP 1

Mavericks

The recruits face a terrifying bridge leap before they can find their base. The jungle environment, altitude and insects

EP 2

Aggression

Chief Instructor Ant and his elite team test whether the remaining recruits can control their aggression, with a brutal

EP 3

Trust

The remaining recruits' trustworthiness is tested, as the directing staff sow distrust among them and ask them to identi

EP 4

Control

The directing staff apply pressure to the last eight recruits, exposing hidden personality traits before sending them in

EP 5

Interrogation

In the final episode, the remaining recruits undergo the most psychologically demanding 24 hours of the course: the resi

EP 1

Pressure

From the start, the recruits face a series of extreme, high-pressure tasks, including jumping from a moving helicopter i

EP 2

Weakness

The recruits must abseil 200 feet off a dam and climb a mountain in blistering heat with 40lbs on their backs

EP 3

Brotherhood

The recruits race each other across sand dunes in the Sahara and must cross a valley at night while avoiding hunter team

EP 4

Betrayal

The recruits must dive 10 metres into a reservoir - backwards, and blindfolded. And then they're captured and intensely

EP 5

Survival

Eighteen recruits down, seven to go... and it's the most demanding final phase the instructors have ever designed. Some

EP 1

Equals

For the first time, female recruits join the selection process. In a dramatic opening episode, the women fall behind the

EP 2

Strength

The remaining male and female recruits face gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical strength, in

EP 3

Mindset

With the conditions deteriorating, the recruits must negotiate beastings in the snow and a night out in a blizzard 3000

EP 4

Trust

This episode is about trust. The recruits are teamed up in pairs, then take a free-falling abseil into a rocky gorge and

EP 5

Pressure

The remaining recruits must cross a 200-metre gorge, swim beneath the ice on a frozen lake and navigate a perilous valle

EP 6

Interrogation

The remaining men and women's final challenge is also the most psychologically demanding: resistance to interrogation, a

EP 1

Exposure

Led by Ant Middleton, 25 men and women - including an ex-SAS operator working as a mole - face the latest intense course

EP 2

Aggression

The recruits are pushed to control their aggression, as they're trained with guns and take part in hand-to-hand combat,

EP 3

Unity

The recruits take on the intense close-combat murderball and surf immersion - a notorious water beasting that simulates

EP 4

Grit

The recruits' grit is tested as Jay's undercover status is revealed and he launches a brutal beasting to expose the weak

EP 5

Pressure

The recruits are stalked across the Scottish Highlands by a military-trained hunter force, before facing extreme interro

EP 6

Reckoning

The last six recruits face deep interrogation and a day of sickeners, including `drownproofing' - simulated drowning. On

EP 1

Episode 1

21 new recruits embark upon a recreation of the brutal SAS selection process, starting with an ambush, a hijack and a 10

EP 2

Episode 2

The recruits face a forward abseil and an arduous beasting by the DS. There's also an extreme water immersion exercise a

EP 3

Episode 3

The recruits must master their emotions under extreme pressure - from a scary backwards dive at night to an illusion jum

EP 4

Epsiode 4

The recruits work in pairs as they tackle the threat of chemical warfare and execute a fast-paced extraction in near-fre

EP 5

Episode 5

The recruits are on the run across the punishing landscape, pursued by a military-trained hunter force, in a real life g

EP 6

Episode 6

The remaining recruits face the final stages which consist of an interrogation and a brutal sickener. They must prove th

EP 1

Episode 1

A new elite training team welcome 20 brave recruits to the searing, epic Jordanian desert, with an intense start crossin

EP 2

Episode 2

The recruits pair up for a 50-foot freefall off a cliff. They also face a brutal beasting in the desert, which pushes so

EP 3

Episode 3

The recruits try a seven-metre backwards dive and face an elimination sickener on a major sand dune. After hand-to-hand

EP 4

Episode 4

After a set of tasks designed to test trust, including hand-to-hand combat and a terrifying abseil, Shylla's pushed to c

EP 5

Episode 5

After a beasting on base, the teams are pushed to their physical limits as they race to pull vehicles weighing 1000kg fr

EP 6

Episode 6

In the series finale, the last recruits are subjected to all kinds of punishing interrogation techniques. In the most fe

EP 1

Fear

Twenty recruits prepare to enter `Jungle Hell', the toughest phase of SAS selection. First they are tasked with traversi

EP 2

Mindset

The recruits take part in extreme hand-to-hand combat. A breach of camp discipline leads to a 'beasting'. And a recruit

EP 3

Composure

In the Vietnamese jungle, the group are tasked with a 200-foot abseil into a dark bat-infested cave. In a bustling marke

EP 4

Leadership

The remaining 11 recruits face a hostage rescue mission hoping to spring two abducted recruits. The second challenge is

EP 5

Survival

The recruits' will to survive is severely tested with an extraction task used in the Vietnam War. Then the recruits must

EP 6

Interrogation

The seven remaining recruits are ambushed by a hunter force team behind enemy lines. Handed over to interrogators for qu

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Jason Fox
Jason Fox
Directing Staff
Chris Oliver
Chris Oliver
Self - Directing Staff