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Based on true events, this is an account of an American UN Peacekeeping Force which landed in Mogadishu, Somalia in October 1993. Their mission was to abduct the two top lieutenants of a local warlord but the team are quickly surrounded by enemy forces and a fifteen hour fierce ground battle ensues...

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ProducerJerry Bruckheimer

EAN5035822270831

eBay Product ID (ePID)3950197

Product Key Features

ActorEnrique Murciano, Carmine Giovinazzo, Ewen Bremner, Hugh Dancy, Brian Van Holt, Kim Coates, Brendan Sexton, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Tom Guiry, Ewan McGregor, Ioan Gruffudd, Josh Hartnett, Jeremy Piven, Gabriel Casseus, Danny Hoch, Sam Shepard, Eric Bana, Richard Tyson, Jason Isaacs, Ron Eldard, Charlie Hofheimer

Film/TV TitleBlack Hawk Down

DirectorRidley Scott

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageDutch\English\Hindi

Run Time138 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen\2.40 Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2002

FeaturesWidescreen, Feature Plus Three Commentaries Including Director Ridley Scott And Producer Jerry Bruckheimer\Filmmakers And Cast Filmographies\Deleted Scenes\Alternate Scenes\Essence Of Combat Featurettes\Image And Design Featurettes Including Jerry Bruckheimers On Set Photography\Weblink, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreWar

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate15

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

ComposerHans Zimmer

ReviewsSight and Sound - ...[Made] with immense technical skill and spectacular photography..., Box Office - ...Well-made..., Rolling Stone - ...A personal best for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a triumph for Scott and a war film of prodigious power. You will be shaken..., New York Times - ...There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott..., Variety - ...[The] images have a raw, vital quality that heightens the urgent, you-are-there quality of the action, and all the equipment, effects and military-related details are superb..., USA Today - ...BLACK HAWK's knockout photography, editing and sound are all state of the art...

Additional InformationOn October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men lost their lives. Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the story of the battle in his exhaustively researched, critically acclaimed book, BLACK HAWK DOWN, and filmmaker Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) and screenwriter Ken Nolan have done an amazing job of bringing the dramatic story to the screen. Like Bowden's book, the film does not thoroughly examine the context of the conflict, but gives a detailed and intense blow-by-blow account of the fighting. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Josh Hartnett as a competent but nervous Ranger sergeant leading his first mission, Ewan McGregor as a "desk jockey" who excels when sent into combat, Eric Bana (THE INCREDIBLE HULK) as a cocky and enigmatic Delta, and Ron Eldard as a downed Black Hawk pilot. The violence of the film is brutal and nearly constant. Scott unflinchingly captures the chaos and mayhem of battle with tremendous visual finesse.

Executive ProducerMike Stenson, Branko Lustig, Chad Oman, Simon West

Special EffectsNeil Corbould

ScreenwriterKen Nolan

AuthorMark Bowden

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Movie/TV TitleBlack Hawk Down

EditorPietro Scalia

Director of PhotographySlawomir Idziak