Black Hawk Down

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"Leave No Man Behind."

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

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-- Box Office --

Released:	Dec 18th, 2001
Budget:	$92,000,000.00
Revenue:	$172,989,651.00

-- General Information --

Rating:	R
Runtime:	144 Minutes
Genres:	Action / Drama / History / War

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Black Hawk Down Main Cast

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Josh Hartnett
plays Eversmann

Ewan McGregor
plays Grimes

Tom Sizemore
plays McKnight

Eric Bana
plays Hoot

William Fichtner
plays Sanderson

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The production imported 100 Rangers, a dozen Humvees and 8 Black Hawks into Morocco for filming. This was considerably more firepower than anything else in the country and the Moroccan king was understandably uneasy about allowing such a large foreign military presence into his country. Ridley Scott joked that they could have taken over the country if they'd wanted to.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The uniforms worn are 3-color desert combat uniforms (DCU) with 6-color "chocolate chip" desert Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) helmet covers. This is correct. The new DCUs adopted in 1992 (after Desert Storm) had entered the supply chain by 1993 and had begun to be issued before the Somalia incident. Elite formations like the Rangers and Special Forces are usually the first to receive new equipment, and were so equipped in Mogadishu in October 1993. The reason they still wore the older camouflaged helmet covers was due to the fact that the covers had not been issued yet. It is has been historically quite common for US helmet covers and other camouflage accessories to lag behind in the distribution of new patterned uniforms.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The call to prayer in the beginning was called after the sun had risen. In Islam, there are no calls to prayer after sunrise until after noon.
Department of Defense gave the producer a platoon of Army Rangers who did the fast rope scenes

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