Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21750 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-19
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English, Somali
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 138 minutes

Amazon.com
Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic. --Jeff Shannon

DVD Description
Black Hawk Down is the action packed true harrowing account of US Military action in Mogadishu, Somalia. As part of a UN Peacekeeping force, a group of elite US soldiers undertake a mission to abduct several top lieutenants of a Somalian warlord to stop the civil war that has been tearing the country apart. The carefully planned mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the US military's single biggest firefight since Vietnam. From famed action producer Jerry Bruckheimer and acclaimed action director Ridley Scott.

Special Features
Disc One:

• Feature plus 3 x commentaries, including director Ridley Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer
  
• Filmmakers' and cast biographies

Disc Two:

• 8 x deleted/alternate scenes
  
• 6 x Essence of Combat featurettes
  
• 7 x Image and design featurettes including Jerry Bruckheimer's on-set photography
  
• Weblink

Disc Three:

• 10 x TV Spots
  
• Music video
  
• Theatrical trailer
  
• Multi angle featurette
  
• Photo Gallery
  
• 3 x interviews (incl. Q&A at the BAFTAs)

DVD Technical Information:

• Running Time: 138 mins
  
• Region Code: 2

Customer Reviews

good movie but throughly biased
black hawk down is based on actual events thus it is quite fictional in many parts. also it is throughly biased in which you are made to feel sorry for the americans who get killed(only 18) while the somalies are made to be shown as sub-human(more than 1000 somalies lose thier lives). on doing research into the conflict in somalia i learnt that it also has to do with oil just like iraq.

a 'good' war movie which pushes the american foreign policy and agenda.

i would like to see a movie of black hawk down from the somalian side if that will be possible.

'Nobody gets left behind'
Black Hawk down is a brilliant war movie that follows a team of American special forces & army Rangers as they fight for there lives in the city of Mogadishu for 1 day & night against pretty much the whole city. They were sent into to capture rwo lietuents of a bloodthirsty miltia leader, it was only meant to last an hour but after one of the black hawk helicopters was shot down they get pinned down in the city fighting against all odds. I've read the book by Mark Bowden (which I reccomend) and most of the battle sequences and even dialogue are just like the book.
Black Hakw Down is a gripping, moving, exciting, adrenline fueled war film that you watch over & over again, I recomend it.

Great!!
Great film, a refreshing change to this genre of film! Although this film is probably a bit far from the truth it can down as one on the best war films!