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- SAS: Rogue Heroes charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre.
- In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.
- The film revolves around the life of the martyr Mustapha Ben Bouleid (1917-1956), who was a member of the Algerian National Movement, who worked with his comrades to explain the idea of the armed revolution in which he led in Aures region in 1954. The film depicts how Ben Bouleid traveled to a number of Arab countries Disguised to bring arms to Algeria for the revolution and how the French colonial forces arrested him in the Tunisian-Libyan border, and from there to Algeria to be sentenced to death.
- Mulvaney (John Archer) and Cling Marshall (Douglas Dick), operators of a small-cargo airline which flies food into French and Viet Namese forces fighting the Communists invaders, are asked by the local American consul to keep an eye out for a lost American geologist, Professor William Marlow (Rory Mallison), and a secret Red base. No sooner said than done. Returing to their base, the Americans are captured by the Reds and in their escape and recapture, come upon the geologist, who is a prisoner at the secret base. Complications are added by the additions to the American party of a Chinese orphan boy, Jake (Hayward Hoo Soo), a pregnant widow, Ellen Philips (Maura Murphy), of a third airline employee Swede Philips (Don C. Harvey) , and the American's pretty French secretary Cleo (Jean Willes). With some difficulty, the Americns escape from the base, with information vital to the success of the French cause. In a finale of mostly newsreel clips, Mulvaney and Marshall return with French paratroopers to destroy the Communist base and revenge the murder of Jake.
- As the SAS's reputation spreads among the Axis Italian and German forces, another daring mission results in a shocking and devastating loss to the team.
- Paddy initiates the Free French soldiers into some unorthodox training methods, and Stirling leads a raid on Benghazi accompanied by the prime minister's son, Randolph Churchill.
- We explore siege warfare which is almost as old as history itself and can have several aims.