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"Black Hawk Down" is the story of the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam. On October 3, 1993, elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed by Somali men, women and children armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The Rangers were pinned down in the most dangerous part of Mogadishu, Somalia and taking casualties. What had started out as a planned 90 minute operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid--turned into a tragic firefight that lasted seventeen hours, left eighteen Americans dead, eighty four wounded and continues to haunt the U.S. military and American foreign policy. It is director Ridley Scott's adaptation of this true war story from Mark Bowden's book of the same title. "Black Hawk Down" refers to the downing of U.S. Black Hawk helicopters by Somali rocket-propelled grenades. The film also starred Ewan MacGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewan Bremner and Sam Shepard.
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