Black Hawk Down was a 2001 British-American war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The film was adapted from the book of the same name by Mark Bowden, which was based on a series of articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The 29-part series chronicled the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid and the ensuing firefight, known as the Battle of Mogadishu.
