Before the SAS became a household name, it was a handful of misfits and rule-breakers nobody in the regular army wanted, and SAS: Rogue Heroes tells that founding story across six episodes.
What is SAS: Rogue Heroes about?
Set during the North Africa campaign, the series follows the small band of officers who pitched an unconventional idea to their skeptical superiors: drop tiny teams deep behind enemy lines to sabotage aircraft and supply depots rather than fight set-piece battles. Their methods are improvised, their discipline unconventional, and their early missions often go badly wrong before the unit finds its footing. As the war grinds on, the show tracks how a group dismissed as reckless amateurs is forced to prove, mission by mission, that its approach can actually work, while its founders clash with commanders who see them as more trouble than they are worth. The result plays as much as a story about institutional friction as it does a war drama, following men who had to invent their own rules because none of the existing ones fit what they were trying to do.
About the cast
Connor Swindells and Jack O'Connell anchor the founding officers at the center of the unit, with Alfie Allen, Dominic West, and Sofia Boutella filling out the wider cast of soldiers, commanders, and the people around them navigating the war.
Context & significance
The series is adapted from Ben Macintyre's nonfiction book of the same name, which drew on regimental diaries and declassified records to reconstruct the SAS's earliest missions. Steven Knight, who also created Peaky Blinders, directs with a similar interest in outsiders operating just outside official sanction, though the setting here moves from postwar Birmingham to the North African desert. The show's six-episode run covers the unit's formation through its first major operations.
Watching SAS: Rogue Heroes on Ktime
SAS: Rogue Heroes is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the platform's Farsi subtitles and dubbing make the wartime setting easy to follow for Persian-speaking viewers. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available for this series, so it can be watched in whichever language suits the viewer.