Black Ops

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.

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Seasons

1. City Under Siege

Air Date: 2012-10-10

Mumbai is under bloody attack and only one Special Force has the know-how and training to take the terrorists to task. In November 2008, an undisclosed number of assassins went on a three-day rampage of death and destruction in India's largest city.

2. Night of Terror

Air Date: 2012-10-17

October 2002. Russia's elite force, Spetnaz Group Alfa, face an impossible task - to rescue 800 people held hostage by Chechen gunmen and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theatre. Negotiations have failed and innocent lives hang in the balance.

3. Taking Down Bin Laden

Air Date: 2012-10-24

This is the story of the most daring black ops raid in recent history. The inside account of operation Neptune Spear: how US Navy Seals brought to an end the hunt for the most wanted man in the world, and took down the mastermind of 9/11: Osama Bin Laden

4. Assault on Al Qaeda

Air Date: 2012-10-21

Al-Zarqawi- the most wanted man in Iraq, is proving a formidable enemy. Responsible for bombings, beheadings and attacks, he's more persistent than Saddam and more active than Osama. The coalition's only hope lies with a top secret task force.

5. Operation Thunderbolt

Air Date: 2012-11-07

June 27, 1976 Four terrorists hijack a flight bound for Paris. Forcing the plane to land in Entebbe Uganda they move their hostages to an old terminal. The passengers' fate, most of them Jewish or Israeli, lies in the hands of Israel's top black ops team.

6. Operation Certain Death

Air Date: 2012-11-14

August 25th, 2000: Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Royal Irish Regiment, a unit of the British Army, takes a wrong turn on patrol. They are held up on the roadside by a notorious gang of rebels; the Â'West Side Boys'.

1. The Real Black Hawk Down

Air Date: 2014-06-11

A look at what really happened on the day an American helicopter was shot down over Somalia in 1993.

2. Operation Viking Hammer

Air Date: 2014-06-18

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.

3. The Strike on Syria

Air Date: 2014-06-25

Three special forces units travel to Syria to take out the mastermind behind the country's nuclear weapons program

4. Afghan Hostage Rescue

Air Date: 2014-07-02

tage Rescue Two aid workers are kidnapped in Afghanistan.

5. The Killing of Abu Jibad

Air Date: 2014-07-09

A look at the incredible Israeli assasination plot to bring down Abu Jibad.

6. Crisis in Malaya

Air Date: 2014-07-16

The story of the rebirth of the SAS, as British soldiers take part in a counter insurgency campaign called the Malayan Emergency.

7. Operation Fire Magic

Air Date: 2014-07-23

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.

8. The Japanese Embassy Siege

Air Date: 2014-07-30

The show takes a look at the bloody end to the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, back in 1997.

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Rating

5.0/10

Release Date

2012-10-10

Episodes

14 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended