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160 U.S. soldiers must struggle to regain their balance while enduring heavy gunfire from the Somalia militia while on a mission to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population.
19 May 1956, East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
21 July 1965, London, England, UK
12 October 1981, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
5 November 1943, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
24 November 1976, Tampa, Florida, USA
29 November 1961, Detroit, Michigan, USA
9 August 1968, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
6 June 1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
24 April 1964, USA
5 July 1981, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
27 July 1970, Rudkøbing, Denmark
22 August 1967, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
5 May 1981, Glendale, California, USA
October 20, 1970 in England, UK
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
21 July 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
15 September 1977, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
6 July 1969, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
23 November 1964, Virginia, USA
1967, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1961, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
3 March 1973, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK
June 18, 2012
The nobility and inspiration are in the action. It is in that sense a film very much in tune with America's mood: practical, resolute, fierce.
January 02, 2009
A relentless immersion in combat strikingly realized but none too pleasurable to sit through.
June 24, 2006
[Scott] does a reasonable job sketching the complicated and contradictory political context, but attempts to bring in the odd Somali perspective are grossly inadequate.
November 08, 2011
I also don't know how well this 2001 drama represents the events of October 3 and 4, 1993, though I can see that it represents them in a realist vein, referring to other war movies without becoming frivolous.
July 20, 2002
A first-rate war movie that presents its subject so horrifyingly well that it doesn't need to probe or preach.
September 25, 2010
No film from the Zeroes - hell, maybe ever - more forcefully imparted the horrors of war as thoroughly, coherently and hauntingly. Even justified wars run rampant with monstrosities, and this showed just how critical camaraderie can be in conquering them.
August 23, 2009
Black Hawk Down" is a precise vision of how little war has changed in spite of America's high-tech equipment and extensive vocabulary of modern tactics.
January 02, 2011
Violent depiction of a risky rescue; adults only.
November 08, 2011
It looks fantastic, not least because it boasts helicopter scenes to rival those of Apocalypse Now.
February 28, 2008
While fine films like Saving Private Ryan depict warfare at its worst, they do not depict warfare in modernity. I cannot imagine a better representation of war, with all of its urban complexities, than Black Hawk Down.
November 08, 2011
Black Hawk Down makes that point without preachment, in precise and pitiless imagery. And for that reason alone it takes its place on the very short list of the unforgettable movies about war and its ineradicable and immeasurable costs.
January 24, 2002
[D]efinitely worth seeing for those amazing battle sequences.
