Black Hawk down  [videorecording] / 
Revolution Studios ; Jerry Bruckheimer Films ; Scott Free Productions ; producers, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ridley Scott ; director, Ridley Scott. 
 - Culver City, Calif. :  Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,  [2002] 
 - 1 videodisc (144 min.) :  sd., col. ;  4 3/4 in. 
<br/><br/> Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.  Based on the book by Mark Bowden.  Special features: "Black hawk down: on the set" featurette; theatrical trailers; filmographies; production notes. 
<br/><br/>Cinematography, Slawomir Idziak ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; music, Hans Zimmer.  Cinematography, Slawomir Idziak ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; music, Hans Zimmer. 
<br/><br/>Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard. 
<br/><br/> Widescreen. 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. 
<br/><br/> Rated R. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD format. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English or French with optional subtitles in French, Chinese and Thai. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>076787062X 9780767870627 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>043396067660 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>06766  Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bowden, Mark--Film adaptations.<br/>Aidid, Mohammed Farah, 1934- --Drama.<br/>Aidid, Mohammed Farah, 1934- <br/>Bowden, Mark.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army.  Task Force Ranger --Drama.<br/>United States. Army.  Task Force Ranger. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Operation Restore Hope (1992-1993)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1992 - 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993--Drama.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Feature films.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>War films.<br/>Drama.<br/>Film adaptations.