Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan. It is based on the 1999 eponymous non-fiction book by journalist Mark Bowden, about the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu.
Black Hawk Down: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana. The story of one hundred and sixty elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
On , Somali forces shot down three American Black Hawk helicopters, leaving U.S. soldiers stranded in a deadly firefight known as the Battle of Mogadishu.
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Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of 1993’s deadly Battle of Mogadishu. Here is a look back at the real events that inspired the award-winning film 'Black Hawk Down.'
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Black Hawk Down is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and famine that is ravaging the country.