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Black Hawk Down
Black Hawk Down
6.6
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3,923 Ratings

BLACK HAWK DOWN

Directed by Ridley Scott
United States, 2001
War, Drama, Action

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Our take

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.”