A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama.

Rating: 8/10 (2 September 2010)

In Black Hawk Down American troops dropped into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 to capture a warlord find themselves surrounded and under heavy fire.
The film is a true-life account displaying director Ridley Scott's usual meticulous attention to technical and logistical detail, to the detriment of much human interest: the soldiers are merely interchangeable pawns whose extremities are blown off at regular intervals; more regrettably, the Somali casualties are reduced to a footnote after all the flag-waving is over. The film won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Sound in 2001.