Black Hawk Down (2001)
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.
DVD Features:
- Commentary by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Ridley Scott
- Commentary by author Mark Bowden and screenwriter Ken Nolan
- Commentary by Task Force Ranger Veterans
- Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s)
- The Essence of Combat: Making Black Hawk Down:
- 1. Getting It Right
- 2. Crash Course
- 3. Battlefield Morocco
- 4. Hymn to the Fallen
- 5. Digital Warriors
- 6. After Action Report
- 8 deleted & alternate scenes with optional commentary
- Production design archive
- Storyboards with optional commentary
- Ridleygrams with optional commentary
- Jerry Bruckheimer's Black Hawk Down photo album
- Title design explorations with optional commentary
- Photo galleries
- The History Channel Presents: The True Story of Black Hawk Down
- PBS Presents: Frontline: Ambush in Mogadishu
- Interactive mission map/timeline
- Target building insertion - multi-angle sequence with optional commentary
- Question & Answer Forums: BAFTA (Ridley Scott, Jerry
Bruckheimer, Josh Hartnett, Ewen McGregor, Jason Isaaca, Mark Bowden & Tom Matthews), Motion Pictures Editor's Guild
(Pietro Scalia), American Cinematheque (Jerry Bruckheimer & Ridley Scott)
- "Gortoz A Ran - J'Attends" music video performed by Denez Prigent & Lisa Gerrard
- Theatrical poster concepts
- Widescreen anamorphic format
- Number of discs: 3
