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- The rescue of the Russian Mini-sub AS-28 by the British Navy.
- A National Geographic documentary about the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi (War House) located in Northern Afghanistan, from Novermber 26, 2001 to December 1, 2001.
- The story of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart yacht race. A massive storm develops and the weather deteriorates to such a degree that six sailors eventually lose their lives. Eyewitness accounts and news footage illustrate the terror that ensued.
- One wrong step by a climber on Mount Hood in the US leads to one of America's worst climbing disasters.
- When two policemen noticed two heavily armed criminals with body armor robbing a branch of the Bank of America in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, they called the local police department for support. A gun battle lasting almost 45 minutes ensued; one criminal committed suicide, the other was killed by the S.W.A.T. team. 18 officers and civilians are wounded.
- When Palestinian terrorists hijacked air France plane flying from Israel to France, Israel launches daring rescue mission
- Chechen terrorists storm the Dubrovka Theatre in central Moscow in 2002. With 900 people trapped inside, President Putin refuses to negotiate and a top secret plan is hatched to rescue the hostages.
- Detailing the March 2002 battle of Takur Ghar in southeastern Afghanistan, when a group of US Special Forces came under attack from Al Qaeda fighters while trying to secure a remote mountain-top observation point, leading to an ill-fated and dramatic rescue mission. Seven soldiers lost their lives in what is considered one of the bloodiest battles for U.S. forces in the Afghan war. These dramatic events are shown through key first-hand accounts, reconstructed drama, advanced CGI and archive footage.
- The dramatized account of an USAF pilot shot down behind enemy lines in Bosnia in 1995 and his struggle to evade capture and get rescued.
- Elite British soldiers must mount a daring rescue in a diamond rich African trouble-spot to save British peacekeepers and a Sierra Leone Army officer kidnapped by a notorious rebel gang.
- Deep inside Pennsylvania's Quecreek mine, 18 workers descend for their evening shift on 24 July 2002. A few hours later, their lives are plunged into peril when one of the miners accidentally breaks through into a long abandoned mine.
- A Russian mini-submarine runs into trouble in 2005 in the North Pacific. With the crew trapped deep underwater and running out of oxygen, international rescuers begin a desperate race against time.