Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3792 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-19
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• 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

Saving Private Ryan is arguably better but Black Hawk Down is currently the best depiction of modern combat in a film
The cast is A* with truly outstanding performances coming from Ewan McGregor and Eric Bana amongst others. I can't think of a modern war film that offers such a realistic take on military combat. Saving Private Ryan may be a better war film, but Ridley Scott has created a masterpiece here and one that is going to be difficult to better in the future.

Brilliant DVD!
What can i say bout this..... it just made u feel like u was there. This film had everything u could want, it doesnt stray from the actual point of the story but doesnt neglect the characters either! deff worth buying!!

the perfect war film
If you like war films with action from start to end then this is the film for you. The camera work is outstanding and the film is simply thrilling!