Black Hawk Down overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 2
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Synopsis:
A 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. 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.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Studio: Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Scott Free Productions
- Year: 2001
- Run Time: 144 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Set in: Mogadishu, Somalia
- MPAA Rating: R (for intense, realistic, graphic war violence, and for language)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: War
- Filmed in: Color
