Black Hawk down [videorecording] / Revolution Studios ; Jerry Bruckheimer Films ; Scott Free Productions ; producers, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ridley Scott ; director, Ridley Scott.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 06766 | Columbia TriStar Home EntertainmentPublication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002]Description: 1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 076787062X
  • 9780767870627
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Slawomir Idziak ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; music, Hans Zimmer.
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard.Summary: 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.
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Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, Sam Shepard.

Cinematography, Slawomir Idziak ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; music, Hans Zimmer.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

Based on the book by Mark Bowden.

Rated R.

Special features: "Black hawk down: on the set" featurette; theatrical trailers; filmographies; production notes.

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.

In English or French with optional subtitles in French, Chinese and Thai.

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