Explores a state of the art training facility where Cobra snipers, abseilers and explosive experts demonstrate the unit's ability to engage and defeat an enemy with speed, flexibility and decisive force. From the forests of Austria, Elite Special Forces travels to the streets of New York City where it fell upon the elite members of the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit to thwart a deadly gang of suicide bombers plotting to bomb one of the city's busiest subway lines.
The story of the hijacking of Air France Flight AF139 on 27 June 1976 from Athens and the subsequent mission to rescue the hostages from the airport terminal at Entebbe in Uganda. The movie contains interviews with former hostages, including Captain Bacos who (together with his crew) refused to abandon his passengers as well those who planned the rescue mission and those executed it.