Additional information for Black Hawk Down, which has a domestic theatrical release set for January 18, 2002. The film is being distributed by Columbia Pictures and has not yet been rated. Black Hawk Down has a total running time of 144 minutes.
16
Argentina
R
Australia
14
Brazil
13+
Canada
K-15
Finland
-12
France
16
Germany
IIB
Hong Kong
16
Netherlands
R16
New Zealand
15
Norway
14
Peru
PG-13
Philippines
NC-16
Singapore
15
South Korea
13
Spain
15
Sweden
16
Switzerland
15
UK
R
USA
16
Iceland
18SG
Malaysia
M/16
Portugal
A
India
18
Czech Republic
15
Ireland
VM14
Italy
144min
152min
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123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
In Somalia, famine and civil war have gripped the country, resulting in over 300,000 civilian deaths and a huge United Nations peacekeeping operation. With the bulk of the peacekeepers withdrawn, the Somali militia have declared war on the remaining UN personnel. In response, United States Army Rangers, Delta Force, and 160th SOAR are deployed to Somalia to capture Mohammed Farrah Aidid, self-proclaimed president of the country. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force operatives capture Osman Ali Atto, a warlord selling arms to the militia of Aidid. Shortly thereafter, a mission is planned to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdiid, two of Aidid's top advisers. The US forces include experienced men as well as new recruits, including PFC Todd Blackburn and a desk clerk going on his first mission. When his Lieutenant is removed from duty as the result of a seizure, Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann is placed in command of Ranger Chalk Four, his first command.
The operation is launched and Delta Force successfully captures Aidid's advisers inside the target building, but the Rangers and helicopters escorting the ground-extraction convoy take heavy fire, while SGT Eversmann's Chalk Four is dropped a block away by mistake. When Blackburn is severely injured after falling from one of the Black Hawk helicopters, three Humvees led by SGT 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 gets underway, and shortly thereafter Black Hawk Super-Six One, piloted by CWO Clifton "Elvis" Wolcott, is shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and crashes deep within the city. Both pilots are killed, the two crew chiefs are wounded, and one Delta sniper on board escapes in another helo that makes it back to base. The ground forces are rerouted to converge on the crash site, but the Somali militia throw up roadblocks, causing LTC Danny McKnight's Humvee column to lose its way, while sustaining heavy casualties. Meanwhile, two Ranger Chalks, including Eversmann's unit, reach Super-Six One's crash site, setting 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, crashing 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 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 crash site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, and Durant is captured and taken to Aidid. McKnight's column gives up the attempt to reach Six-One's crash site, and returns to base with their prisoners and the casualties. The men prepare to go back to extract the pinned down Rangers and the fallen pilots and MG Garrison orders the 10th Mountain Division, including Malaysian and Pakistani forces, to mobilize as a relief column.
As night falls the Somali militia launch a sustained assault on the trapped Americans at Super Six One's crash site. The militia is held off throughout the night by strafing runs and rocket attacks from AH-6J Little Bird helicopter gunships of the Nightstalkers, until the 10th Mountain Division's relief column is able to reach the site. The wounded and casualties are evacuated in the vehicles, but a handful of remaining Army Rangers and Delta Force operatives are forced to run from the crash site back to the stadium, in the UN Safe Zone.
The closing credits detail the results of the raid: 19 American soldiers were killed, with over 1,000 Somalis dead. Durant was released after 11 days of captivity. Delta snipers Gordon and Shughart were the first soldiers to be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. On August 2, 1996, Aidid was killed in a battle with a rival clan. General Garrison retired the following day.
Ridley Scott
Director(s)
Mark Bowden
Ken Nolan
Writer(s)
Jerry Bruckheimer
producer
Harry Humphries
associate producer
Branko Lustig
executive producer
Terry Needham
associate producer
Chad Oman
executive producer
Pat Sandston
associate producer
Ridley Scott
producer
Mike Stenson
executive producer
Simon West
executive producer
Producer(s)
Hans Zimmer
Composer(s)
Eversmann
Josh Hartnett
Grimes
Ewan McGregor
McKnight
Tom Sizemore
Hoot
Eric Bana
Sanderson
William Fichtner
Nelson
Ewen Bremner
Garrison
Sam Shepard
Kurth
Gabriel Casseus
Wex
Kim Coates
Schmid
Hugh Dancy
Durant
Ron Eldard
Beales
Ioan Gruffudd
Yurek (as Thomas Guiry)
Tom Guiry
Smith
Charlie Hofheimer
Pilla
Danny Hoch
Steele
Jason Isaacs
Harrell
Zeljko Ivanek
Matthews
Glenn Morshower
Wolcott
Jeremy Piven
Kowalewski
Brendan Sexton III
Shughart
Johnny Strong
Busch
Richard Tyson
Struecker
Brian Van Holt
Gordon
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Cribbs
Steven Ford
Waddell
Ian Virgo
Twombly (as Thomas Hardy)
Tom Hardy
Galentine
Gregory Sporleder
Goodale
Carmine Giovinazzo
Joyce
Chris Beetem
Thomas
Tac Fitzgerald
Sizemore
Matthew Marsden
Blackburn
Orlando Bloom
Othic
Kent Linville
Ruiz
Enrique Murciano
Maddox
Michael Roof
Atto
George Harris
Mo'alim
Razaaq Adoti
Firimbi
Treva Etienne
Somali Spy
Abdibashir Mohamed Hersi
Black Hawk Down
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Ken Nolan
Writer(s)
producer
Harry Humphries
associate producer
Branko Lustig
executive producer
Terry Needham
associate producer
Chad Oman
executive producer
Pat Sandston
associate producer
Ridley Scott
producer
Mike Stenson
executive producer
Simon West
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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