Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film produced and directed by Ridley Scott and written by Ken Nolan. It is based on the 1999 book of the same name by Mark Bowden. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, and Sam Shepard.

Black Hawk Down tells the story of a group of elite American soldiers, known as the Special Forces, who are sent to Somalia in 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord. When their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, the soldiers are forced to fight their way through …