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Black Hawk Down 144 minutes, USA (2001), 15
Average user rating (3.1 / 221 votes)

Ridley Scott's vivid, visceral war drama based on true events. An elite American force stirs up a hornets' nest of murderous resistance on the streets of Mogadishu when their operaton misfires

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Black Hawk Down: The year 2001 saw a mini-trend in 'faction' war stories, from the apparently faithful and wholly excellent 'Band Of Brothers' on television, to the less dependable - and infinitely more shallow - Pearl Harbor on the big screen. In terms of style and credibility, Black Hawk Down fits between those extremes.

The film describes the infamous Battle of Mogadishu in 1993...
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