In 1993, an elite group of American soldiers are sent to Somalia on a mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime has led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and fighting for their lives.

Ridley Scott’s scarred, burnt, bleached and blistering story of an American military micro-catastrophe has been one of cinema’s most influential visions of modern warfare. Released mere months after 9/11, it has defined how we imagine (and film) the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and the “war on terror.”