From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer and based on actual events, BLACK HAWK DOWN is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in October 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord as part of a strategy to stop the civil war and famine that is tearing the country apart. However, when the carefully planned mission takes an unexpected turn it results in the U.S. military's single biggest firefight since Vietnam. For the extraordinary and committed men who fight 18 harrowing hours in the most hostile district of Mogadishu, one late afternoon's journey was to be the single most defining moment of their lives.