Black Hawk Down: Book vs. Movie
Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) adapts Mark Bowden’s 1999 nonfiction book about the Battle of Mogadishu. A US raid in Somalia becomes an overnight effort to reach downed helicopters and evacuate wounded soldiers.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Mark Bowden
- Year
- 1999
- Pages
- 416Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 14 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Alan Sklar
Mark Bowden reconstructs the October 1993 battle in Mogadishu, following an American raid that becomes an overnight struggle to recover wounded soldiers and reach downed helicopters. Drawing on interviews with Americans and Somalis, he moves among the people caught in the fighting and the commanders trying to direct it. Their accounts show how a brief capture mission unravels into a battle whose scale neither side controls.
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Ken Nolan
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 2 hr 23 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana
- Genre
- action, Adventure, Drama, historical, historical drama, Suspense, Thriller, war
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann leads a Ranger unit into Mogadishu on a mission to seize two lieutenants of a Somali warlord. When helicopters are shot down, the soldiers are redirected toward the crash sites while a ground convoy struggles to reach them through barricades and gunfire. As daylight fades, medics, pilots, and infantrymen try to keep wounded comrades alive in positions they were never meant to hold.
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