On the basis of his work in this film, co-star Eric Bana, a relatively unknown Australian actor playing Delta Sgt. Black Hawk Down was voted one of the top ten films of the year by the National Board of Review prior to its limited Oscar-qualifying release. In the end, 70 soldiers are injured and 18 are dead, along with hundreds of Somalians.
The ensuing firefight is a merciless 15-hour ordeal and the longest ground battle involving American soldiers since the Vietnam War.
When two of the mission's Black Hawk helicopters are shot down by enemy forces, the Americans - committed to recovering every man, dead or alive - stay in the area too long and are quickly surrounded.
Grimes (Ewan McGregor), a desk-bound clerk getting his first taste of live combat. First Class Jeff Sanderson (William Fichtner), and Ranger Spec. Danny McKnight (Tom Sizemore), the resourceful Delta Sgt. Matt Eversmann (Josh Hartnett), Ranger Lt. On October 3rd, 1993, an elite team of more than 100 Delta Force soldiers and Army Rangers, part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force, are dropped into civil war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, in an effort to kidnap two of local crime lord Mohamed Farah Aidid's top lieutenants. The film won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound at the 74th Academy Awards.Ī quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley Scott, based on a series of Philadelphia Inquirer articles and subsequent book by reporter Mark Bowden.
The movie features Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Piven, Eric Bana, Ewen Bremner, William Fichtner, Tom Hardy, Sam Shepard, Jason Isaacs, Glenn Morshower and Orlando Bloom. Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book of the same name by Mark Bowden that depicts the Battle of Mogadishu, a raid integral to the United States' effort to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
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