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Following the ousting of the central government in 1993 amid a civil war that had started in 1991, the United Nations
Security Council authorized a military operation in Somalia, with a peacekeeping mandate. After the bulk of the peacekeepers
were withdrawn, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid declared war on the remaining UN personnel. In
response, the U.S. Army deployed three of its special operations forces – 75th Rangers, Delta Force counter-terrorist
operators, and 160th SOAR - Night Stalkers aviators – to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president
of the country. To consolidate his power and subdue the population in the south, Aidid and his militia seize Red Cross food
shipments, while the UN forces are powerless to intervene directly. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture Osman
Ali Atto, a faction leader selling arms to Aidid's militia. The US plans a mission to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan
Awale Qeybdiid, two of Aidid's top advisers. The U.S. forces include experienced men as well as new recruits, including 18-year-old
PFC Todd Blackburn and a desk clerk, SPC Grimes, going on his first mission. Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann receives his first
command, of Ranger Chalk Four, after his lieutenant needs medical treatment.
The operation begins and Delta Force operators capture Aidid's advisers inside the target building. The Rangers and helicopters
escorting the ground-extraction convoy take heavy fire, while Eversmann's Chalk Four is dropped a block away by mistake. Blackburn
is severely injured when he falls from one of the Black Hawk helicopters, so three Humvees led by SSG Jeff Struecker are detached
from the convoy to return Blackburn to the UN-held Mogadishu Airport. SGT Dominick Pilla is shot and killed just as Struecker's
column departs, and shortly thereafter Black Hawk Super Six-One, piloted by CWO Clifton "Elvis" Wolcott crashes when shot down by
a rocket-propelled grenade. Both Wolcott and his co-pilot Dan Briley are killed, the two crew chiefs are wounded, and one Delta
Force sniper Busch on board escapes in an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter, although Busch dies later from injuries. The ground forces
are rerouted to converge on the crash site. The Somali militia erects roadblocks, and LTC Danny McKnight's Humvee column is unable
to reach the crash area while sustaining heavy casualties including Joyce, Alphabet and Wex. Meanwhile, two Ranger Chalks, including
Eversmann's unit, reach Super-Six One's crash site and set up a defensive perimeter to await evacuation with the two wounded men and
the fallen pilots. In the interim, Super Six-Four, piloted by CWO Michael Durant, is also shot down by an RPG and crashes several blocks away.
With CPT Mike Steele's Rangers pinned down and sustaining heavy casualties, no ground forces can reach Super Six-Four's crash site nor
reinforce the Rangers defending Super Six-One. Two Delta Force snipers, SFC Randy Shughart and MSG Gary Gordon, are inserted by helicopter
to Super Six-Four's crash site, where they find Durant still alive. The site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, and
Durant is captured by Aidid's militia before the angry mob of Somali civilians can kill him as well. McKnight's column relinquish their
attempt to reach Six-One's crash site and return to base with their prisoners and the casualties. The men prepare to go back to extract
the Rangers and the fallen pilots, and MG Garrison sends LTC Joe Cribbs to ask for reinforcements from the 10th Mountain Division,
including Malaysian and Pakistani armored units from the UN coalition. As night falls, Aidid's militia launch a sustained assault on the
trapped Americans at Super Six-One's crash site. Jamie Smith is killed while covering for his teammate when he gets shot in the leg and
bleeds out despite everyone trying to help him. The militants are held off throughout the night by strafing runs and rocket attacks from
AH-6J Little Bird helicopter gunships, until the 10th Mountain Division's relief column is able to reach and save the American soldiers.
The wounded and casualties are evacuated in the vehicles, but a few of Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are forced to run on foot from
the crash site; after fighting through militia forces, they eventually reach the Pakistani Compound UN Safe Zone. Steele visits his
dying friend Ruiz as all the wounded are tended to. The end titles recount the immediate aftermath of the mission and end of US military
operations in Somalia: Michael Durant was released after 11 days of captivity, after which President Bill Clinton withdrew all US forces
from Somalia. Mohamed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.
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Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Eric Bana,
Sam Shepard, Orlando Bloom, Ioan Gruffudd
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Director: Ridley Scott
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer & Ridley Scott
Released - December 28, 2001
Length - 144 minutes
Music Composers: Hans Zimmer & Denez Prigent
Movie Distributed by Columbia Pictures
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