Twenty years earlier in 1981 another man was flying to Brazil ready to execute an audacious plan to kidnap Biggs from Rio and return him to Britain. With ex-British military personnel, Ronnie Biggs was snatched from Rio de Janeiro then transported by land, sea and air to Barbados a country that vitally had an extradition treaty with Britain. The plan was a brilliant success.

For the first time ever this film tells the remarkable story of "Operation Anaconda" the 1981 mission to kidnap Ronnie Biggs, with exclusive access to the kidnap team who carried out the snatch and exclusive footage of Biggs held captive by the kidnap team.