Selection and Training

Drawing on first hand testimony from many of the Regiment's most decorated soldiers, this film reveals for the first time the inside story of SAS selection. The few that make it through will become 'universal soldiers', elite members of the worlds' most highly trained fighting force. The exhilarating and sometimes brutal elements of SAS selection are presented using powerful and dramatic reconstructions. In the first selection phase candidates undertake punishing endurance marches. Despite severe mental and physical stress, the recruits have to cross the pain barrier many times as they navigate across the Brecon Beacons, carrying immense weights over huge distances. Only the toughest will get through to the jungle phase, known to the recruits as the 'Green Hell'. Enclosed by the dense canopy they are tested to the limit in one of the harshest environments known to man. Those tough enough to endure the hardship and those lucky enough to avoid the plethora of jungle diseases will pass on to combat survival and interrogation. We have reconstructed this phase as a soldier is ruthlessly pursued by a Hunter Force, captured and interrogated. The candidate must prove that he is tough enough to operate deep behind enemy lines. If captured he must prove he has the resilience to resist the fiercest interrogation. Only those with the most immense spiritual strength will be welcomed into the ranks of the SAS.